On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
You can say whatever snarky things you want to about Windows (and no one enjoys trashing Microsoft and its straight out of a Pixar movie management more than I do), BUT
Flash actually works for Windows, and I need Flash (I know...pathetic, isn't it?) AND
Vmware Player for Windows, unlike Red Hat's various experiments with virtualization, actually works in a way I can use.
A Windows box with a huge memory space and whatever mixture of XP, Fedora, CentOS, and Ubuntu (not to mention Cygwin) seemed finally Good Enough.
It is, apparently, not to be.
One possible approach to the shifting sands of the GUI is to stop using it. Unfortunately reading through the crabbed and unreliable prose of man pages is something I now do only in desperation. What's the difference between a lower case r and an upper case R? You have to be socially-maladjusted to think that such a thing should occupy an important place in your life...but it does, because I use grep and regular expressions. That's changed of course, but then I have to remember that it has changed, and I am getting old.
Maybe I'll be sufficiently frustrated with Ubuntu that something else will happen in the end, but, right now, it's looking like Windows for the laptop and anything but Fedora for everything else.
Robert Myers.
On 07/03/2012 04:10 PM, Robert Myers wrote:And why should it? That would be setting the bar far, far too low.
Fedora
doesn't even aim at being a replacement for Windows.
You can say whatever snarky things you want to about Windows (and no one enjoys trashing Microsoft and its straight out of a Pixar movie management more than I do), BUT
Flash actually works for Windows, and I need Flash (I know...pathetic, isn't it?) AND
Vmware Player for Windows, unlike Red Hat's various experiments with virtualization, actually works in a way I can use.
A Windows box with a huge memory space and whatever mixture of XP, Fedora, CentOS, and Ubuntu (not to mention Cygwin) seemed finally Good Enough.
It is, apparently, not to be.
One possible approach to the shifting sands of the GUI is to stop using it. Unfortunately reading through the crabbed and unreliable prose of man pages is something I now do only in desperation. What's the difference between a lower case r and an upper case R? You have to be socially-maladjusted to think that such a thing should occupy an important place in your life...but it does, because I use grep and regular expressions. That's changed of course, but then I have to remember that it has changed, and I am getting old.
Maybe I'll be sufficiently frustrated with Ubuntu that something else will happen in the end, but, right now, it's looking like Windows for the laptop and anything but Fedora for everything else.
Robert Myers.
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