On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 11:32:26 +0200 (CEST) Felmon Davis <moelmoel2714@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jul 2020, William Morder via trinity-users wrote: > > > Note that I never started out to be a Linux crusader, nor did I think much > > about the implications of "proprietary" software. It was only when I couldn't > > get my machines to do what I wanted (things that they used to do without > > complaint); then I started doing some research, which eventually led me to > > Linux, then GNU/Linux free/libre, Richard Stallman, et al. The same with > > systemd versus init: systemd messed up my system, that's why I didn't like > > it. Later came the philosophy and politics of computers and software, and all > > that other stuff. > > my history is a bit a mix of yours and other motives. I started out > with MSDOS, then a non-MS variant of DOS (4DOS?), then Desqview, then > OS/2, then RedHat. I wanted to avoid MS entanglement. (never > even contemplated Apple.) MS felt too intrusive and the aesthetics > was distasteful. not that IBM is so great but OS/2 had a bit more a > sense you are not wards of the corporation, you had a somewhat freer > hand or so it felt to me then. The punchline there is that OS/2 was written by Microsoft (under contract from IBM). Personally, I would be just as happy never to have to deal with Windows again, but I'm forced to use a Windows 10 machine at work because one of my occasional duties there is fixing old Excel macros (and washing my hands thoroughly afterwards, because Visual Basic for Applications is a disgusting excuse for a programming language). E. Liddell --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
