[KLUG Advocacy] A user leaves....

[Adam Williams]

>>I do think it means that he was predisposed to going back to Windows if he
>>was going to go anywhere. Many have a desire to return to their roots when
>>something else doesn't work out.
>Yes, back to the hole little mole..
>Sometimes I feel that way too, though.  I have been deep in trenches
>with deployed Windows networks/workstations since 3.1 and Lantastic.  I
>had friends try to get me to start using Linux back in 1995.  I let
>opportunities pass me up as I stuck with M$. 
>I started using myself around 1998. Now is the first time, though, that
>I am trying to use it as a desktop replacement.  In the past month I
>have converted my work machine so that nearly all of my time and work is
>on the Linux side.  Applications like evolution and nautilus really help
>make that happen.  

Yes they do.  Evolution is the first mail client I'm truly happy with. 
Nautilus actually becomes usefully fast in GNOME2 (Can't wait till
Galeon end Evo get ported so I can switch 'for real').

>Everything is not perfect, though.  

No it isn't.

>But I see this as
>an opportunity to learn more.  I really try not to turn back and take
>the easy way out, but like when the HP4550 laserjet doesn't print in
>color, I will flip to the WinXP side to print.  Then I will come back to
>Linux though, to try and work things out. 

?  Isn't the HP4550 a Postscript printer?  I'm pretty sure I've met one
of these before.

>Now is certainly not the time to run back to M$, with the committments
>they are trying to get with the subscription model.  I wouldn't be
>surprised if the Passport method not only tracked credit card/email but
>also license numbers.  Passport will migrate to an embedded ID.  Then to
>use WinXP you would have to have have the "Mark of Bill"  (oh, and not
>in a Monica Lewinski way) on your forehead.  Gates is the AntiChrist!!
>(Ok, I know he can't be, but maybe a subordinate of..)

We are all his subordinates to some degree,  it is just an issue of
rank.