Re: Back to Windows??
On 17 Feb 2001, Bud Rogers wrote:
> On Saturday 17 February 2001 10:13, Jan van Veldhuizen wrote:
>
> > Why am I pegging away with Linux? If I start the Windows Setup right
> > now, my system will work completely in less than 1 hour....
>
> > I'm feeling 20 years in the past, when configuring all peripheral
> > hardware was a specialist's job...
> > Or have I become dull by Microsoft's Plug'n Play.....
>
> Hi Jan,
>
> I think you will get some flames for this, but these are valid
> questions. Always you have choices and almost always the choices
> involve a tradeoff.
>
> You can pay Microsoft to do all that hard work for you. Microsoft
> tries very hard to make it easy for you to choose the Microsoft answer.
> You pay Microsoft money, Microsoft makes it easy for you. As long as
> you choose the Microsoft way.
>
> You can accept the gift of labor and love of thousands of unpaid
> volunteers that have made Linux possible. They offer you not the easy
> answer, but freedom. They give you many choices. They do not promise
> it will be easy.
>
> Microsoft says, "Here is a black box that is easy to use. Do not look
> inside." The Linux community says, "Here is a box full of craftsman's
> tools. Learn to use the tools and you can do anything you want."
>
> Only you can decide which is the right choice for you.
>
> --
> Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/zamm.html
> All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either.
Well put. But the original poster said he was using *SUSE*. Now, if only
he had been using Debian...
Anthony
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