[mdlug] An Idea inspired by....

[Robert Adkins]

Bob dion wrote:
> Wolfger wrote:
>
>   
>> When I reinstalled Windows, my initial idea was to dual boot, and only use
>> Windows for gaming purposes. However, this did not happen for two reasons:
>> 1) Dual booting is a royal pain in the buttocks.
>> 2) Virtually everything I want from Linux (except stability and freedom 
>> from
>> worrying about virii) is available (or has a work-alike) on Windows. I even
>> got an EXT2 driver so that I can access my Linux data partitions. Does
>> Windows still frost my shorts? Yeah, fairly often, but it's getting better
>> as I discover more tools that make it more Linux-like. And a lot of it is
>> F/OSS.
>>     
>
> But you lose, perhasps the most important aspect of using GNU/Linux...
>
> FREEDOM!!!
>
> BD
    One of the definitions of FREEDOM!!! still includes choice, the last 
time I looked.

    It's not really FREEDOM!!! if you have no choices. Granted, this 
can't and shouldn't be applied to everything, just to things that are 
not necessarily life and death. Let's face it, choosing to use a 
particular computing platform for your home and most business computing, 
for whatever reason is rarely a life and death situation.

    With that said, I find myself using Linux most often as a server, 
although I do play around with Linux on my laptop from time to time, it 
just doesn't fulfill all of my needs to the same level as Windows 
happens to.

    At work, I have no choice, but to use Windows as a desktop. I run 
software that will not run in WINE and if I ran it inside a VM the 
performance drop would be so significant that I might as well lop off 
all but one forefinger and strike out one of my eyes.

    Rob