Re: Dvorak switches to Linux

In article <gpb9mu$bb$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Marcel Pagnol <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jerry Kindall wrote:

Your subject line overstates things a bit. As Dvorak points out in the
very article you're quoting, he writes about Windows for a living and
can't give it up. However, he will consider Linux for "ancillary
machines" (his words).

His words:

"That said, I seriously like the Ubuntu 8.10 implementation and will now
install it permanently on my *latest* machines."

Does "latest" sound to you like "ancillary"? It seems he will recycle his
ancillary machines with Ubuntu too.

He was very complimentary to Apple in the same article.

He says Unix is not as prone to virus as Windows. I never contested that.
What I say is Apple does not provide you with the hardware you need, which,
for a desktop, would be a Psystar, but with the hardware they need to
maximize their profit: iMacs, Minis, Pros, etc.

You really sound like a remake of my dear Greggy

Whereas you sound like a typical wintroll with a hardware fixation.
Apple has provided me with *exactly* the hardware I need, in the shape
of a Mini. Nice and small and replaceable when I upgrade it in a few
years. And with a ready market on eBay, too, as I found when I sold the
G4 Mini on getting the first of two Intel ones. And guess what - I've
never had the slightest inclination to open any of them.

When I visited a friend yesterday and watched him have to crawl under
his desk to plug in a memory stick in a noisy generic PC, I knew why I
was glad I had a Mini.

--
Tim

"That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed,
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted" -- Bill of Rights 1689
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