[GRLUG] value of time and why I run Linux

[peyeps at iserv.net]

>
> Maybe my time isn't as valuable as yours, but I'm willing to spend
> time to avoid spending money.  That's the same reason I did my own
> auto maintenance with my last car.
>

My time is valuable, which is why I run Linux and don't install a new
kernel every two years.

> Control is a nice feature of it.  Control is also one of the reasons I
> run Linux in the first place.  I suspect that's true of a lot of the
> people on this list.
>

I run Linux not because of the control, unless you consider not having
your machine reboot because a bunch of patches got downloaded, or having
something break because a "patch" was downloaded a control issue, but
because I want something that works and doesn't freeze up because of a
code picked up in passing from a google search.

So I don't do bleeding edge.  I stick with what works.  Call me old
fashioned.  I really don't like having my tools re-arranged and having to
find out where useful things have been moved to.  It's bad enough finding
out that the terminal is not under accessories in Redhat as it is in
Ubuntu, but is under utilities.   Having a standard control panel shuffled
about the way Microsoft did just because they wanted to do something
different is nothing but a pain.  Good riddance to bad excrement.