[plug] Advice please

[skribe]

At 03:47 16/02/00 +0000, Christian wrote:

>Hmmm... so perhaps the reason you're tossing $$$'s at this new machine
>is really a cry for help?  That is, you want to beef up your Linux
>machine so that you can migrate to Linux for doing your "real" work and
>escape from a life of agonising waits, over-priced software, blue
>screens and erratic failures?  Am I right?  If not and this new machine
>would just be an idle server sitting in the corner of the room that
>nobody notices and never gets used then the advice to upgrade the memory
>and hard disk a little and spent the rest of the money on something else
>is a very good idea.  However, if I'm right and you actually want to
>start using Linux as your main desktop system then spend away and enjoy
>what will be a truly blissful piece of machinery.  (I run Linux at home
>and work on a K6-2/300 and PII/266 respectively and I don't remember the
>last time I had to wait for something so I can barely imagine what you
>have in store for yourself.)

Nice try at psychobabble, Christian, but no cigar for you.  I know you feel
threatened by other people using OSes oher than linux but you really
shouldn't be.  Linux is not the answer to every solution.  My life (and
countless others) would be so much easier if it were.  Linux is a good OS,
but it's nowhere near perfect.  Chill out.

As for my `tossing' money at a new machine, it's because the P-133 is
slowing to a crawl and I want to do what I did 4 years ago.  Spend $3000
and buy something that will last 3-4 years.


skribe 
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