On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 11:32:26 +0200 (CEST) Felmon Davis moelmoel2714@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jul 2020, William Morder via trinity-users wrote:
Note that I never started out to be a Linux crusader, nor did I think much about the implications of "proprietary" software. It was only when I couldn't get my machines to do what I wanted (things that they used to do without complaint); then I started doing some research, which eventually led me to Linux, then GNU/Linux free/libre, Richard Stallman, et al. The same with systemd versus init: systemd messed up my system, that's why I didn't like it. Later came the philosophy and politics of computers and software, and all that other stuff.
my history is a bit a mix of yours and other motives. I started out with MSDOS, then a non-MS variant of DOS (4DOS?), then Desqview, then OS/2, then RedHat. I wanted to avoid MS entanglement. (never even contemplated Apple.) MS felt too intrusive and the aesthetics was distasteful. not that IBM is so great but OS/2 had a bit more a sense you are not wards of the corporation, you had a somewhat freer hand or so it felt to me then.
The punchline there is that OS/2 was written by Microsoft (under contract from IBM).
Personally, I would be just as happy never to have to deal with Windows again, but I'm forced to use a Windows 10 machine at work because one of my occasional duties there is fixing old Excel macros (and washing my hands thoroughly afterwards, because Visual Basic for Applications is a disgusting excuse for a programming language).
E. Liddell
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