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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Date: 7 Mar 2017 20:51:13 GMT
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On 2017-03-07, Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote:
> Jolly Roger wrote:
>
>> On 2017-03-07, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>> In article <5uhtbc1ahs263r5223446ibu82qeaoi0ji@4ax.com>, chrisv
>>><chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Linux has no unified UX strategy
>>>> 
>>>> Some people like to be part of a herd, some people prefer freedom.
>>>> 
>>>> Desktop Linux is for those who prefer freedom.
>>>
>>> freedom of having the least amount of software from which to choose.
>> 
>> Freedom to spend hours of your "free" time hacking your system,
>> twiddling this or that, recompiling this or that, installing laborious
>> updates, and so on, just so your computer will do what you wanted in the
>> beginning. ; )
>
> Idiot

Nope, just a grown-up who is paid well to work in the hardware and
software design and development fields who values his free time way more
than Linux dweebs. What Linux zealots will never get is sometimes the
computer should work for *you* rather than the other way around. : )

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