George Borisov wrote: > I can not speak about other people And yet, as I read your comments, I almost thought it was me speaking.
> I use Debian because it is an operating system I can > _trust_ and it is 100% free as in speech and beer (to me, the > speech bit is actually more important.) Ditto. > It is also more powerful tha[n] Windows, easier to administer properly and > does not tell me > to "contact the network administrator" when there is a problem. > Yep. > Just for the record: no, I don't know any Perl (unfortunately) > and yes, I think the command line is superior to GUIs for most > administrative tasks. > That's me. > Yes [Windows] is becoming easier, but at the expense of extra > restrictions (and the fact that is something does actually go > wrong, it is much, much harder to fix, even if you are well above > the average skill level.) > Absolutely!! I turn down so much money that I could be making fixing people's broken Windows setup, because I've learned that if I charge what I'm worth the time it takes to fix it is way more than a new computer is worth (which is just a vicious cycle) and I don't want to "gouge" people so I just generally turn them down (and tell them to save themselves a lot of headaches by getting a Mac), or that the setup simply can't be fixed and all you can do is wipe/reinstall. Windows is a horrible OS from the standpoint of maintenance and repair. Horrible. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
