On 2012/03/23 15:30, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 23.03.2012 23:26, schrieb Joe Zeff:
On 03/23/2012 02:54 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
"a lot of money" is laughable speaking about
a graphics card
most of us on this list are running Fedora strictly on our home machines,
not in a production environment the way you do, and that means that any
money spent on hardware upgrades comes out of our own pockets
so what?
i had enough years with really few money, but if i needed
hardware i went to a shop and bought it - sometimes that
meant drinking 3 beers less
You still don't get it. There are people, usually retired and significantly
older than I am, who are down to their last dimes. A video card would very
literally mean no beans today or we eat cat food or dog food today rather
than real food. Beers? That's racist. I don't do beer, for one person here.
If somebody is hungry beers are not in the budget. Video cards certainly
are not in the budget. They cost too many cans of beans, too many days of
food.
don't get me wrong but if someones life depends on the money
a working graphis card these days will cost he has enough
other problems than a computer and solve them first
How about if their quality of life depends on safely getting online to
communicate with others and avoid isolation. Not all of us are solitary
critters like I am. And even I need a communicate with others fix even
if it's not always feasible for me to get out of the house. (I get rather
randomly spontaneous vertigo attacks thanks to a problem in my left ear.
So I can't drive. Online opens the world to me. Thankfully I have a modest
programming consultancy providing beans and a few other goodies in excess
of the cost of the machines on which I produce the software. Others are
not so lucky.)
Those others get attracted to Linux because it reduces the cost of getting
online.
I have it chiefly for the local network support, firewall, mail filtering,
etc around here. Later on Linux will be "it" for me when I stop my
programming efforts. And I want Linux to be as good as possible. So I figure
reporting problems and asking for help or rendering real help when I can is
providing for my own future quality of life.
{^_^}
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