On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 22:56 -0700, Mike Hoy wrote:
> mplayer does a good job of playing from command line. there are times when i'm using my laptop and running on battery power only, and, to save on battery life, i use command line only.
>
> (that does make sense right? command line only will extend the life of my battery?)
>
> so in a terminal one can type mplayer * in a directory and it'll play all the files and if you add -shuffle it'll randomize it.
>
> i have xmms and others, so i'm all set in GUI.
>
> besides I like being at a coffee shop or airport and working in command line and people coming up to me and saying "What's wrong with your computer? With mine, at home, I don't even have to type anything!"
>
> My friends come over and see yum update running or whatever and say "jeez your computer breaks down a lot" I love stuff like that.
>
> one other thing, when running Gnome on my laptop I've had people say "mac user huh?"
>
> guess it's the layout of the toolbars.. i'm rambling now...
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my theory is that computers are a tool - nothing more - nothing less.
Whether windows, macintosh, linux is really not of significant
importance unless you choose to make it so. I find that Macintosh users
tend to have too much ego invested in the computer that they choose to
use.
All have their strengths and weaknesses. I prefer the strength of open
source - the philosophy of open source.
I could just as easily use my Windows XP machine (with
Firefox/Thunderbird/OpenOffice.org) or my Macintosh but I don't use them
for much more than 'clients' for my testing of things like ldap.
Whatever other people use and try to compare to what I am using really
isn't material since it isn't anything more than a tool - and my needs,
like most others that I have seen are for simple word processing, email,
web browsing, spreadsheets and desktop publishing are met fairly simply.
Speaking of desktop publishing...scribus (v1.2) is starting to look
really good!
Craig
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