On 20/12/10 20:55, Simon Royal wrote:
So in short, what make me a Linux user. Well, an ex-Mac user with a disgust for Microsoft and a fan of being different and a nerd at heart.
So what make you lot a Linux? Why do you decide to walk on the other side of M?
Back in 1984 I was a snr programmer and sys admin for Burroughs (now UNiSYS). I was responsible for maintaining the hardware and software on a dozen or so XE550 (a re-badged Convergent Technologies) unix boxes. Each with a couple of dozen software engineers multitasking on each box developing new software.
I found unix to be so much simpler to maintain after the small systems MCP I had been supporting for the previous 5 years.
Once I left (was made redundant) UNiSYS I made a living writing large systems database software - very boring but it paid the mortgage.
When Microsoft started to emerge in the mid to late 1980s I, of course, had to learn how to use it. I found the continual shifting sand of the various DOS, and later windows, operating systems a chore to use. Each new software release meant a nightmare of re-writes and patches just to stand still.
So hardly any surprise at all that at home I readily embraced linux. Once again, as in the 19080s, I am able to just do what *I* want to do without the hassle of having to fight to o/s to do it "my way". No longer any need to spend my (non existent) pension on expensive bloat-ware that kinda does something like what I was wanting to do. A multitude of simple, easy to stitch together, programs do almost everything I want. One off tasks are simple to "bash" together and then throw away once used. Even the very rare times that there is no "off the shelf" program to do what I want I find it simple to throw something together as and when needed, without the need to spend many hours of guessing "how to" as pretty much all file, data and I/O formats are open source.
I'm a linux user, because I'm bone idle and linux lets me stay lazy.