Buy a mac :) --- Steven M. Klass Physical Design & CAD Technical Manager National Semiconductor Corp. 15210 S. 50th Street Suite 120, Mail Stop AZ4 Phoenix AZ 85044 Phone: 480-629-2503 Cell: 480-326-7620 Home: 480-988-5657 Fax: 480-629-2476 steven.klass@nsc.com http://www.nsc.com On Nov 9, 2003, at 12:18 AM, Craig Brooksby wrote: >> Face it - most people just want to use a computer >> that works - they aren't interested in the economics, >> politics unless/until they are forced to. > > 1) Can't back up my files -- image creation chokes on symbolic links. > 2) Unable to get my palm pilot to sync since moving to Linux. > 3) (Forget my digital camera) > 4) Installing a new font takes two pages of instructions. > 5) Samba is opaque to me. The Win boxes were networked up in 10 > minutes. > > 6) Rpms: dependency hell. Solution: "ignore warnings." > 7) Mozilla arbitrarily stops communicating with the web. > 8) I keep System Monitor running so I can kill Nautilus when it hangs. > 9) I need deep knowledge of the filesystem in order to install > anything. > 10) If I upgrade GNOME to the latest release, would my system get more > stable or less? Any bets? > > 11) Open Office is cheaper -- I'll say that for it. > 12) Formulas in Calc sometimes just refuse to calculate. Unlike their > more compliant neighbor cells, these prefer staying text. Deal with > it. > 13) Python IDEs are better on Windows. > 14) How many variations on "cut and paste" do I need to learn? Answer: > 1 > (until I moved to Linux). > > "Most people aren't interested...until they are forced to be" could > easily be interpreted as imputing laziness to people like me. I think > that is too simple an interpretation. Why blame anyone for picking up > the tools they need to get their work done? > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >