Linked by Preston Liam Whels on Wed 16th Apr 2003 18:07 UTC
Put yourself in his/her shoes. You're a budding young technical writer and the one word you hear popping up in almost every tech-related conversation is, you guessed it, Linux. Now look in the mirror and try to tell yourself you're more than a writer. After all, you write about technology because it not only interests you, but you're accurate and fair enough to tell it like it is. Maybe not.
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Ok, Walt if I was ever going to make a list of the kind of users that should try out linux, you and the other people would make that list.
It goes like this.
You said the magic words to quote you:
come to Linux not because they want it to be like Windows
Cool. You want something on x86 software that is not like Windows?
You have a chance of perhaps liking linux.
You are willing to learn a different way of doing things?
You have a chance of liking linux.
Do you understand that no matter who many companies try to make money off you with linux that it is still an alternative OS and hardware support and other things are possible headaches?
You have a chance of liking linux.
Do you understand distros have gotten better but everything still usually does not work right out of the box and postinstall tweaking when you install a new OS of any kind?
You have a chance of liking linux.
not all distributions need be "dumbed down" for people switching from Windows
Honestly, that is the not the point for me at least. I got away from Windows and I do not want a distro that supposedly acts just like Windows ( Lindows for example ). Also, I knew this would happen and said so when the very first linux on the desktop articles started popping up. A slew of people (not you BTW) popping up complaining about every other thing not being exactly like the Windows they were already use to. It ain't Windows and I hope it never will be.
Am I old fart who does not Linux to change for the better?
No, package management and improved tools for sytem management and server management are needed and there are some holes in terms of desktop functionality I would love to see get plugged.
there ought to be (and increasingly are) distributions geared toward desktop users
They need to improve but they are out there like Lycoris, and I think that Mandrake and SuSE are pretty good desktops.
You like Vector so go for it.
I hope you end up liking the same OS I like.
But that does mean that I would ever want to flame someone for not liking or wanting the same things I do.
Hope you have fun and find the OS that is right for YOU not me not a pundit and not an OS zealot but the right OS for YOU.
Looks like linux from what you have said may be it.
Good luck.