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To: dayglored

I always feel bad when I forget to ping you into any thread that I start here related to computers. This one and the motivation for it are probably too arcane to get much attention.


5 posted on 06/09/2024 8:56:41 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: fireman15; ShadowAce
No worries about the ping :-) I'll add ShadowAce since he's the prime mover for Linux / Open-Source stuff on FR.

I no longer have a "preferred" operating system. I have used Linux, Windows, and MacOS constantly and interchangeably all day at work and evenings for personal stuff, for so many years, that I now move between them seamlessly without even thinking about it. They all run simultaneously, side-by-side, mostly in VMs. Hardware is mostly Apple and HP, because those are the most trouble-free.

I'm annoyed and even angered by what has happened to the tech industry as a result of social and governmental pressures. I started doing hands-on computers with a PDP-8 and a Kim-1 in the '70s, so I think in 50 years I've earned my right to an opinion.

But I have given up worrying about whether Microsoft, or Apple, or Canonical, or RedHat, or whoever, is messing around with regard to DEI or any other virtue-signalling crap. I care in the abstract, of course, and it does pi$$ me off, but I can't waste my time fussing with it any more. I'm 72, probably only have a handful of productive years left, and I still have lots of work to do.

12 posted on 06/09/2024 9:17:28 AM PDT by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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