On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Olin Lathrop wrote:

> I hear there are such things out there, but I don't care since I don't have
> an attitude problem and insist on not using Windows.

  When I switched from Windows to Linux 2 years ago, my computer crashed
every 2 hours on average.  I lost a lot of time waiting for reboots and
cleaning up from the 3 minutes since the last auto-save.  Linux never
crashes.  Perhaps the newer Windows models can say that now too, but why
spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on it when I have free
alternatives for everything I want to do?

  For any of you who haven't tried Linux or BSD, you will find that the
idea of sharing in these communities is entirely different than it is in
the Windows "freeware" world.  I learned more about computers and
programming in the last 2 years on Linux than I did in the previous 6
years using Windows.

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