[KLUG Advocacy] Use Linux where it fits formerly ... Lindows/"I Hate Linux" rant....

[Robert G. Brown]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:42:31 -0700, Rusty Yonkers <therustycook@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I think that this guys rant is not as much against Linux but against
>militant users that he has run across....
Wasn't my impression, but OK. It does seem that there were some personal 
characterization made about some Linux users, which seemed rather 
inappropriate to me.

>These are the militant users that say Linux is the best solution for
>everything.  I think that is an invalid position.  
There have been militant users who favored (or opposed) almost every tool
you can think of, utilities, programming languages,user interfaces, pro-
ramming styles, hardware, management techniques, etc...

Many of these feelings are based on limited, personal experience, and about
as many are not applicable, right, correct, ro appropriate. The fact is the
we live in an ecology, not a monoculture.

The sooner we realize this, and sooner we'll be alble to devlop a realistic, 
picture of what is going on, and perhaps what is best for particular users and 
situations.

Much of the rest of your message has good examples. I don't preted to know if
thry are correct, and I'm not sure I ageree with all of them, but here's two
key points:

   - IT DOESN'T MATTER
     My experience and goals are differnet from yours, and I develop my 
     own ideas from a different point of view. So do you.

   - THERE ARE ALWAYS EXCEPTIONS
     Even to that! :) [pathological cases only] The market and other pressures
     will satisfy a very large portion of the user base over time, unless the
     platform is abandoned.

Just as it is not realistic to demand that Linux be used for everything, it is
also not realisitc to recognize that Linux is making real inroads, and 
continues to be more adaptable and usable today thatn it was a year ago, even
six months ago. No platform is perfoect or ideal, and each one seems to seek 
a somewhat different user base.
							Regards,
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