From: Tom Achtenberg To: "'plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us'"=20 Subject: RE: Good Bye Gnome, Hello KDE, I hope Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 07:12:16 -0700 Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us I've been a systems administrator for hundreds of win boxen - 95, 98, Nt4= , 2K=20 workstations and servers and finally got fed up with the way win OSes dec= ide=20 to change for no reason whatsoever, so I gave up and switched to Linux.=20 Yes , you have to tweak your config but, once that's done you're stable a= nd=20 you don't have to worry about dll hell or any other fickle change that yo= ur=20 OS may want to put you through. No lockups for no reason, no blue screens= , no=20 having to reboot and best of all no virii. I control my computer ... it doesn't control me. I'm not particularly in favor of any one OS or distro but am much more=20 satisfied with Linux than I ever was with win.=20 BTW I run SuSE 8.0 on my main boxen with KDE and RH8 on another with Gnom= e, 3=20 different Macs - 8.2 to OSX and 1 win 98SE and am going to get Debian for= a=20 firewall on one of my unused boxen. Like was said in an earlier post...chew slowly and make sure you digest y= our=20 food thoroughly. --=20 Augie Grayfox grayfox78 at cox dot net "When things go wrong, don't go with them" Anonymous ----Original Message----- I'm still here because I don't like to give up on something before I exha= ust=20 all possibilities. I keep hearing from a few people how wonderful and ea= sy=20 to use Linux is and I'd like to see it. I agree with the concept of open= =20 source. Unfortunately I have yet to find Linux to be so fantastic or=20 experience all the negative I've heard from this group about Microsoft an= d=20 Red Hat. =20 What does bother me is you have some people on this list complaining abou= t=20 Microsoft for all it's alleged problems and at the same time ignoring all= the=20 hoops they need to jump through to run Linux. By this I mean things like= =20 recompiling the kernel to get a printer to work etc. What's the differen= ce=20 between doing that and tweaking something in Windows? Why is one accepta= ble=20 and the other is not? I also don't like all the complaining some of thes= e=20 people do about commercial software (meaning any software you have to pay= =20 for) and at the same time complaining about all the out of work programme= rs. I'm trying to give Linux a chance for my desktop but I'm not going to sit= back=20 and listen to all the Microsoft bashing and ignore all the blatant short=20 comings of the Linux desktop. For someone like me who uses several email= =20 accounts and discussion lists, Kmail is the best email client I've seen. = If=20 I can ever get my Linux desktop stable enough to rely on it will become m= y=20 email client of choice. =20