OpenEuphoria

Re: off topic : WinLinux

• Posted by RedWordSmith <redwordsmith at NIC.DREAMHOST.COM> Nov 23, 1999
• 631 views

Brian Broker wrote:
>
> On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 20:22:57 -0600, RedWordSmith
> <redwordsmith at NIC.DREAMHOST.COM> wrote:
>
> >...
> >behind.  Yet another was price.  At $30 a pop, I can afford to get full
> >Linux-box sets up to 3 or 4 times a year.  Windows is too expensive.  My
> >old PB CDeluxe still has a DOS/Win3.11 combo on it.
> >...
>
> Wow, so you'd pay $90-$120 a year for Linux instead of paying $90 for
> Windows 98, an OS that installs itself and upgrades itself (when you go
> online) and has software support for just about any hardware available.

I suppose so, it's a little bit like how I'd rather spend $2 on a hamburger
for lunch every day rather than $10+ on a steak dinner on Friday.  (Not to
claim that Linux is the hamburger of the OS world, I'm speaking strictly in
terms of economics).  Also, just because I can *afford* to do that doesn't
mean I'm going to actually buy it.  I also have (extremely generous) friends
and relatives would who probably not mind getting me a $30- dollar gift if I
hinted.  If it costs closer to a hundred, I can forget about anyone being so
nice to me, I'm going to have to get it myself. :)

>  I
> don't follow your logic here.  Or are you just anti-MS?

A bit.  My Win95 box crashes just as much as my old Win 3.11, and the dialer
keeps on acting funny.  I'd like a system with a "kill" command or equivalent
(I click on "end task" over and over again - it sometimes doesn't work, and I
have not choice but to reboot), that doesn't have everything under the sun
permanently fused together (I'd like to get rid of IE, I use it maybe once or
twice a month, but I can't).  Linux looks most promising, and the idea of
users automatically having their own space also appeals to me.  Yes, Windows
does do logins, but it's not the same.  Linux just seems to do it with more
grace and dignity.

Someone else mentioned elsewhere that the Gimp had been ported to Win32.  I
was under the impression that this was Alpha-quality, although I didn't bother
to look to closely into it.

Oh well, off to go get the public version of the new Linux Euphoria.

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