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[Paul King]

I have had those feelings too. And for me it is more because the computer has 
become for me less of a play-toy and more of a tool to use for serious work. It 
has become increasingly central to what I am doing at work and also at home. 

All would have been right with my world had everything stood still at kernel 
1.2.13, and programmers made their s/w using only static libs. An excellent 
example is version 6 ov WordPerfect for Linux, which doesn't care what version of 
glibc you use or about the kernel or hardware. All functionality is internal to 
their own static libs.

Since kernel version 2.4 things have gotten increasingly complex for me - both 
with Linux and other aspects of my life. And so I haven't been able to take the 
time to learn the new stuff. ANd recently I haven't updated my Linux versions. I 
am still at Fedora 3, and plan to stay there for quite a while. It appears as 
though things are coming along slowly for me, but I have been able to configure 
email, my palm pilot, and several other things quite successfully. 

I think now what I have, like it or not, has become the household equivalent of a 
mission-critical system, which would be better off left alone rather than subject 
to hardware upgrades (unless something blows) or wholesale linux reinstallations. 
After years of, like you, shoe-horning Linux into tons of hardware, I have 
instead begun to feel that the real intent of an operating system is to actually 
use it. I will probably still spend long periods getting software "xyz" to work, 
but that only has to be done once, and it only becomes a pain for me if I have to 
do it again on new hardware within a short period. I have no plans on doing that 
for some time.

Paul King

On 2 Jan 2006 at 21:09, Paul Mora (Paul Mora <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>) spaketh these wourdes:

> I, too, am getting to the point with Linux where I just don't have the
> time/patience/brain cells to spend getting something that, in my mind,
> should be easy, to work  I've been working with Linux since 0.96 of the
> kernel, and have spent countless hours shoe-horning it onto all sorts of
> hardware.
> 
> Maybe it's age... I find idea of spending hours just getting a DVD movie to
> play or installing a new version of OpenOffice.org very unappealing.  I have
> better things to do with my time.
> 
> That doesn't mean that I like Windows.  I love the fact that when I have to
> dig deep into the OS, I can.  But a lot of what I do on Linux systems these
> days should be simple enough to work out of the box.
> 
> My crybaby rant... ;-)
> 
> pm
> 
> --
> Paul Mora
> email: paulmora-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
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