Comments on: The REAL reason we use Linux http://vladdolezal.com/blog/2008/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/ Making personal development fun Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:05:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: vancou http://vladdolezal.com/blog/2008/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/comment-page-3/#comment-2015 vancou Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:47:42 +0000 http://vladdolezal.com/blog/?p=14#comment-2015 nice article... you speak from my heart :) nice article… you speak from my heart :)

]]> By: Placid Storm http://vladdolezal.com/blog/2008/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/comment-page-3/#comment-2002 Placid Storm Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:13:10 +0000 http://vladdolezal.com/blog/?p=14#comment-2002 I am totally new to Linux and using Mandriva 2008. I just got to support the very true fact that I have more fun tweaking everything than I do actually using it. But with everything Linux can do why use windows at all? I mean there are ways to get your games to work in Linux along with every other Windows Program so just convert everyone. Now I am starting to make it sound like a religious cult. Anyway have fun and enjoy the true OS. An Operating System should operate the way you really want it to. I am totally new to Linux and using Mandriva 2008. I just got to support the very true fact that I have more fun tweaking everything than I do actually using it. But with everything Linux can do why use windows at all? I mean there are ways to get your games to work in Linux along with every other Windows Program so just convert everyone. Now I am starting to make it sound like a religious cult. Anyway have fun and enjoy the true OS. An Operating System should operate the way you really want it to.

]]> By: Anonymous http://vladdolezal.com/blog/2008/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/comment-page-3/#comment-1644 Anonymous Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:05:34 +0000 http://vladdolezal.com/blog/?p=14#comment-1644 Especially the "breaking the system" part is true for me. After a depressing afternoon I instantly cheered up when X failed to run and I had to gleefully fiddle with the command line to move xorg.conf around. Especially the “breaking the system” part is true for me. After a depressing afternoon I instantly cheered up when X failed to run and I had to gleefully fiddle with the command line to move xorg.conf around.

]]> By: mlxvi http://vladdolezal.com/blog/2008/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/comment-page-3/#comment-1330 mlxvi Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:14:22 +0000 http://vladdolezal.com/blog/?p=14#comment-1330 Everything you say is true, however, it is not the reason I use Linux. I came to Windows from Unix (which came after a long career starting with big iron and punched cards). After a change of jobs took away my Unix access (AT&T licenses were beyond expensive, and I could not justify one on my own) I attempted to make my peace with Windows. It was like moving from a fine shop were all the tools you needed were not only available, but sharp and clean to a place where old cans of dry paint littered the workbenchs, where there were a few toolboxes filled with an odd assortment of rusty and filthy tools, and you could never find the size you needed. It was like stepping out of a Lotus Elan S2 into a twenty year old taxicab. Linux was--and is--my way back into the Unix world. It is stepping into a shop worthy of a craftsman, with every tool you need, plus hundreds--okay, thousands--of tools you may never need, but when you do need one or more of them, they are right at hand, and clean and sharp and ready to use. It is like driving that clunker of a cab to the recycling center and departing in a Tesla with a full battery. Yes, it is fun, but I am afraid that the word fun is really not up to the task of describing the feeling; it is the deeply satisfying feeling that comes when you are at one with your tools, and without thinking about it you are able to do an absolutely first class job. *That* is why I am using Linux. Everything you say is true, however, it is not the reason I use Linux.

I came to Windows from Unix (which came after a long career starting with big iron and punched cards). After a change of jobs took away my Unix access (AT&T licenses were beyond expensive, and I could not justify one on my own) I attempted to make my peace with Windows.

It was like moving from a fine shop were all the tools you needed were not only available, but sharp and clean to a place where old cans of dry paint littered the workbenchs, where there were a few toolboxes filled with an odd assortment of rusty and filthy tools, and you could never find the size you needed.

It was like stepping out of a Lotus Elan S2 into a twenty year old taxicab.

Linux was–and is–my way back into the Unix world. It is stepping into a shop worthy of a craftsman, with every tool you need, plus hundreds–okay, thousands–of tools you may never need, but when you do need one or more of them, they are right at hand, and clean and sharp and ready to use.

It is like driving that clunker of a cab to the recycling center and departing in a Tesla with a full battery.

Yes, it is fun, but I am afraid that the word fun is really not up to the task of describing the feeling; it is the deeply satisfying feeling that comes when you are at one with your tools, and without thinking about it you are able to do an absolutely first class job.

*That* is why I am using Linux.

]]> By: lady_D http://vladdolezal.com/blog/2008/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/comment-page-3/#comment-1288 lady_D Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:24:33 +0000 http://vladdolezal.com/blog/?p=14#comment-1288 absolutely agree! :) it was really fun after you know how to use it absolutely agree!
:)
it was really fun after you know how to use it

]]> By: why I love linux, but would buy a Mac. http://vladdolezal.com/blog/2008/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/comment-page-3/#comment-546 why I love linux, but would buy a Mac. Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:24:10 +0000 http://vladdolezal.com/blog/?p=14#comment-546 The first time I used Linux at College, the system actually froze on me. LoL. It was Fedora Core 5, I think. I do like Linux, but I can't break from Windows. If one or two more programs were available on Linux I'd just move. I'm thinking of gong to Mac next, it has a UNIX base now. And the command line we all *LOVE* so much. <3 I'm not moving to Vista or Windows 7. My reason for picking Mac is because I like to use iTunes. I have to have it. LoL! Its also got a Geek culture around it. Windows is become TOO user friendly to the point of your needing to not know anything. How do you admin a computer that works with out a reason. No one wants to move to what is being advertised as an "Idiot proof OS"! The first time I used Linux at College, the system actually froze on me. LoL. It was Fedora Core 5, I think. I do like Linux, but I can’t break from Windows. If one or two more programs were available on Linux I’d just move.
I’m thinking of gong to Mac next, it has a UNIX base now. And the command line we all *LOVE* so much. <3

I’m not moving to Vista or Windows 7. My reason for picking Mac is because I like to use iTunes. I have to have it. LoL! Its also got a Geek culture around it.
Windows is become TOO user friendly to the point of your needing to not know anything. How do you admin a computer that works with out a reason. No one wants to move to what is being advertised as an “Idiot proof OS”!

]]> By: Are You Rationalizing Your Decisions? | PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement http://vladdolezal.com/blog/2008/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/comment-page-3/#comment-545 Are You Rationalizing Your Decisions? | PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:30:40 +0000 http://vladdolezal.com/blog/?p=14#comment-545 [...] from the reasons Linux geeks usually give non-Linuxers, I wrote a blog post expressing how I felt - The REAL Reason We Use Linux. It became extremely popular, receiving over 250,000 views in the first week, and it’s still [...] [...] from the reasons Linux geeks usually give non-Linuxers, I wrote a blog post expressing how I felt – The REAL Reason We Use Linux. It became extremely popular, receiving over 250,000 views in the first week, and it’s still [...]

]]> By: Anonymous http://vladdolezal.com/blog/2008/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/comment-page-3/#comment-549 Anonymous Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:40:42 +0000 http://vladdolezal.com/blog/?p=14#comment-549 its so freaking true. its entertaining doing a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge sudo command and watching the programs fly onto your comp or typing fortune or apt get moo and all the other easter bugs hidden for my entertainment. its so freaking true. its entertaining doing a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge sudo command and watching the programs fly onto your comp or typing fortune or apt get moo and all the other easter bugs hidden for my entertainment.

]]> By: Serenity495 http://vladdolezal.com/blog/2008/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/comment-page-3/#comment-547 Serenity495 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:32:57 +0000 http://vladdolezal.com/blog/?p=14#comment-547 Wow. This is exactly what goes on in my head! The annoying part is that I have no idea how to tinker with my system, so every time I give in and start trying to customize my Ubuntu, it stops playing my videos or printing essays since I messed it up somehow. Then I bring my computer genius friend and he gets annoyed with me for tinkering with the system and fixes it after about a half hour of fuming. He then messes around with my system and does all the stuff I wanted to do in the first place. Oddly enough, watching him get angry at my stupidity (I used to use Windows XP but changed to Ubuntu due to the slowness and the viruses.) is somehow even more fun than messing around with Ubuntu in the first place! Thanks for the blog! It is somehow changing my mind from pessimistic (I will fail this test, I will lose the game, it's no worth trying...) to optimistic (I'm not completely there yet.). Thanks again! Wow. This is exactly what goes on in my head! The annoying part is that I have no idea how to tinker with my system, so every time I give in and start trying to customize my Ubuntu, it stops playing my videos or printing essays since I messed it up somehow. Then I bring my computer genius friend and he gets annoyed with me for tinkering with the system and fixes it after about a half hour of fuming. He then messes around with my system and does all the stuff I wanted to do in the first place. Oddly enough, watching him get angry at my stupidity (I used to use Windows XP but changed to Ubuntu due to the slowness and the viruses.) is somehow even more fun than messing around with Ubuntu in the first place! Thanks for the blog! It is somehow changing my mind from pessimistic (I will fail this test, I will lose the game, it’s no worth trying…) to optimistic (I’m not completely there yet.). Thanks again!

]]> By: kllvql http://vladdolezal.com/blog/2008/the-real-reason-we-use-linux/comment-page-3/#comment-548 kllvql Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:16:44 +0000 http://vladdolezal.com/blog/?p=14#comment-548 I have to say, I read this article several months ago, laughed, and thought that those were all horrible reasons for using an impossibly frustrating OS. Well, soon after, I started using Ubuntu, and in the past few months, I have had at least 20 separate distros on my computer. I can't even count the number of partitioning schemes I've tried, and I cannot use windows solely based on the fact that bash is so much better than dos prompt. I just want to say, I agree with you wholeheartedly. Thanks for doing what you do. I have to say, I read this article several months ago, laughed, and thought that those were all horrible reasons for using an impossibly frustrating OS. Well, soon after, I started using Ubuntu, and in the past few months, I have had at least 20 separate distros on my computer. I can’t even count the number of partitioning schemes I’ve tried, and I cannot use windows solely based on the fact that bash is so much better than dos prompt. I just want to say, I agree with you wholeheartedly. Thanks for doing what you do.

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