Linux and Religion

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:35:17AM -0500, John Wildberger wrote:
> What has Linux to do with Religion?. Nothing !
> And yet, I find myself thinking of how much the mindset of Linuxers has in 
> common with religious goals.
> Let me list some of the similarities as they come to mind:
> 
> -My religion is better than yours. My distro is better than yours.

I think my distrobution is better than yours, which is why I use it.  If
you want to know why I will tell you, otherwise you can do what you
want.

> -Any religion other than mine is evil. Any OS other than Linux should be 
> shunt.

Did you mean shunned?

I think lots of OSs are just fine, I just think some are better than
others.  I find windows quite annoying in many ways, and it seems to get
unstable over time, which is hard to put up with when I have debian
installations that run as well as the day I installed them (in 1998)
with many upgrades done in place ever since.  If you need to run a
program that only exists for windows, then go ahead and do that.  If you
don't need to, then I don't know why you would want to put yourself
through all the suffering (or put your personal tech support through the
suffering).

My dad recently asked me 'what is that computer under the desk doing' to
which I replied 'running the internet connection'.  I thought it wasn't
doing anything anymore since he never had to reboot or power cycle or
anything to it anymore (It used to have a network card issue which I
resolved by changing the type of cards).

> -Close your mind to the doctrines and merits of other alternatives.

I prefer to look at the alternatives and see if there is ever anything
better.  That is why I have gone through many distributions over the
years.

> -Spread your believes by any means, regardless, if it is asked for or not.

I prefer to tell people if they ask.  The rest of the time people aren't
interested.

> -Be disparaging and disruptive of the endeavors of those outside your own 
> brand

But they might come up with good ideas that can be copied into my
choice.  Better to spend effort improving what I use than to disrupt
what others use.

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Len Sorensen
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