[mdlug] Linux push an economic phenomenon?

[Aaron Kulkis]

Dan Pritts wrote:
>> I've been using Linux on the desktop since 1998, and i don't
>> recall it ever being tricky, let alone dicey.
> 
> I used it extensively between about 1997 or 1998 and maybe 2005 when I gave up and got a mac.
> 
>> And with my first machine, I hadn't even consulted a hardware
>> compatibility list before building it -- and EVERYTHING worked.
> 
> I wish.
> 
>> I've heard of problems, but they primarily come from
>> "to-the-grave" MS-fanboys 
> 
> That's not me, that's for sure.  
> 
> danno

You have my sympathies.  My first Linux machine was
a Cyrix 386 originally built to run windows (oh, how
I hated that, because I had been using Unix since '83!

I guess I got lucky with my hardware.