.....All this talk about Windows vs. Linux gets a bit tiresome to read after the gazillionth time. And then to pull out an article (Dave Barry's weekly humor column, of all things) and say "Gasp! Dave Barry uses WINDOWS!?" The guy's a humorist, not a rocket scientist or computer engineer. Whaddya expect? Of course he uses Windows. Why should he spend countless hours tweaking a Linux system and searching the net for updated modules when he's got deadlines to meet?
They're tools, that's it. Comparing Windows to Linux is like comparing a Honda Civic to a custom-built roadster. Both have their places on the road. Some people just want a car to run errands around town. Others like to spend endless hours in the garage, tinkering around with carburetors and ignition systems.
I've been a Windows user from the early DOS days (now I use Win98), and I started using Slackware earlier this summer. I like both, though I do tend to favor Linux because I prefer working in console mode with vi, tin, and pine.
But it doesn't really matter. What matters is what you *DO* with it. So you installed Linux and figured out how to recompile your kernel. So what? What do you do with your system beyond that? For me, it's pretty much the same things I do on my Win98 system -- email, web browsing, writing. Both systems are stable enough, IMHO, to handle those relatively low-end tasks. Everything is backed up to my shell account, anyway, which I've used forever.
.....All this talk about Windows vs. Linux gets a bit tiresome to read after the gazillionth time. And then to pull out an article (Dave Barry's weekly humor column, of all things) and say "Gasp! Dave Barry uses WINDOWS!?" The guy's a humorist, not a rocket scientist or computer engineer. Whaddya expect? Of course he uses Windows. Why should he spend countless hours tweaking a Linux system and searching the net for updated modules when he's got deadlines to meet?
They're tools, that's it. Comparing Windows to Linux is like comparing a Honda Civic to a custom-built roadster. Both have their places on the road. Some people just want a car to run errands around town. Others like to spend endless hours in the garage, tinkering around with carburetors and ignition systems.
I've been a Windows user from the early DOS days (now I use Win98), and I started using Slackware earlier this summer. I like both, though I do tend to favor Linux because I prefer working in console mode with vi, tin, and pine.
But it doesn't really matter. What matters is what you *DO* with it. So you installed Linux and figured out how to recompile your kernel. So what? What do you do with your system beyond that? For me, it's pretty much the same things I do on my Win98 system -- email, web browsing, writing. Both systems are stable enough, IMHO, to handle those relatively low-end tasks. Everything is backed up to my shell account, anyway, which I've used forever.
For Quake, I need to put her in "God mode" because she doesn't yet know how to run when someone's shooting at her, but she knows how to load a new game and venture through the levels up to the part where there's a walkway over a lava pool. Then she gets scared and restarts the game.
Then there's Tomb Raider. 3 and Chronicles are her favorites. She usually before her bedtime. In fact, she'll get extremely fussy if she doesn't have her bottle of milk and the Playstation fired up before she nods off for the evening. She knows how to make Lara draw her guns and shoot at dogs and rats, climb ladders, blocks, etc. She isn't sophisticated enough to figure out some of the puzzles, though.
I'd avoid a lot of those software titles aimed at toddlers. Most of it seems like dumbed down, noisy eye candy. Sara tends to tire of that stuff pretty quickly and goes right for the games that my wife and I play. She was also hooked on Snood for a little while, but I don't think it was as interactive for her tastes.
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They're tools, that's it. Comparing Windows to Linux is like comparing a Honda Civic to a custom-built roadster. Both have their places on the road. Some people just want a car to run errands around town. Others like to spend endless hours in the garage, tinkering around with carburetors and ignition systems.
I've been a Windows user from the early DOS days (now I use Win98), and I started using Slackware earlier this summer. I like both, though I do tend to favor Linux because I prefer working in console mode with vi, tin, and pine.
But it doesn't really matter. What matters is what you *DO* with it. So you installed Linux and figured out how to recompile your kernel. So what? What do you do with your system beyond that? For me, it's pretty much the same things I do on my Win98 system -- email, web browsing, writing. Both systems are stable enough, IMHO, to handle those relatively low-end tasks. Everything is backed up to my shell account, anyway, which I've used forever.
-- anthony
.....All this talk about Windows vs. Linux gets a bit tiresome to read after the gazillionth time. And then to pull out an article (Dave Barry's weekly humor column, of all things) and say "Gasp! Dave Barry uses WINDOWS!?" The guy's a humorist, not a rocket scientist or computer engineer. Whaddya expect? Of course he uses Windows. Why should he spend countless hours tweaking a Linux system and searching the net for updated modules when he's got deadlines to meet?
They're tools, that's it. Comparing Windows to Linux is like comparing a Honda Civic to a custom-built roadster. Both have their places on the road. Some people just want a car to run errands around town. Others like to spend endless hours in the garage, tinkering around with carburetors and ignition systems.
I've been a Windows user from the early DOS days (now I use Win98), and I started using Slackware earlier this summer. I like both, though I do tend to favor Linux because I prefer working in console mode with vi, tin, and pine.
But it doesn't really matter. What matters is what you *DO* with it. So you installed Linux and figured out how to recompile your kernel. So what? What do you do with your system beyond that? For me, it's pretty much the same things I do on my Win98 system -- email, web browsing, writing. Both systems are stable enough, IMHO, to handle those relatively low-end tasks. Everything is backed up to my shell account, anyway, which I've used forever.
-- anthony
For Quake, I need to put her in "God mode" because she doesn't yet know how to run when someone's shooting at her, but she knows how to load a new game and venture through the levels up to the part where there's a walkway over a lava pool. Then she gets scared and restarts the game.
Then there's Tomb Raider. 3 and Chronicles are her favorites. She usually before her bedtime. In fact, she'll get extremely fussy if she doesn't have her bottle of milk and the Playstation fired up before she nods off for the evening. She knows how to make Lara draw her guns and shoot at dogs and rats, climb ladders, blocks, etc. She isn't sophisticated enough to figure out some of the puzzles, though.
I'd avoid a lot of those software titles aimed at toddlers. Most of it seems like dumbed down, noisy eye candy. Sara tends to tire of that stuff pretty quickly and goes right for the games that my wife and I play. She was also hooked on Snood for a little while, but I don't think it was as interactive for her tastes.
-- anthony