https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/ Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:16:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5254 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:16:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5254 What blog?

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5253 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:51:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5253 You know, I always suspected that your blog is just a figment of my imagination…

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5252 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:19:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5252 Matthew: You did a search on my blog and found nothing? What does that mean? Does my blog exist?

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5251 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:07:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5251 We use Linux (or variants) because quite literally anything is better than Microsoft’s shoddy crap!

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5250 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:21:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5250 “…you’ll spend piles of time helping all those people who can’t get their stuff to happen (because they are using Windows).”Well, the thing is I think Windows is easy and predictable, so I can make their stuff happen. And I really like helping people with technology, so it’s all good.BTW, I did a search on your blog and it returned nothing, so just in case you don’t already know of it, you would really enjoy: http://www.lifehacker.com, I certainly do.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5249 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:52:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5249 I am a Windows jock at work but am having fun with an Xubuntu system at home. I have a long-term evil plan of getting at least a couple Linux machines into our main lab at the college where I work. We train international business students and it isn’t fair to them to expose them only to Windows. (Same is increasingly true in the US)

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5248 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:36:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5248 Yea, Matthew, have you considered this: As long as you are a Windows jock, you’ll spend piles of time helping all those people who can’t get their stuff to happen (because they are using Windows). If you go Linux, you’ll have a lot more time. Worked for me!

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5247 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:14:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5247 Heck, I thought it was because I couldn’t afford a Solaris machine. /shrug. Hey matthew, don’t become too specialized; it’s a trap.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5246 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:57:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5246 Um, I actually do like the free part, the other free part, the customizability, the community support and the security. Were any of those aspects seriously lacking, it wouldn’t be fun. And that bit about being in a “special clique” is — for me — completely wrong.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5245 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:57:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/18/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/#comment-5245 Unix here, and as it happens I have a terminal window open over there on the left where I always keep one handy. Yes, I like commands, files of commands, shell scripts, and Perl scripts. I know what processes are and how to kill -9 them. I do like black ‘ink’ on white ‘paper’. And I like nonproportional characters.Is it a matter of taste? Perhaps some people like fiddlefarting around, while the rest of us would rather blurt out what we want the machine to do.

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