i just cannot get over the difference between Linux and Windows....

Linux makes me feel that I'm in control of the whole world whereas Windows tries to treat me like a kid and/or slave....

Even now, typing this message my machine is as quiet as quiet can get with Linux. Simple and to the point. Yet elegant and very empowering...! nice experience

Whereas with Windows the experience would be something like 10 minutes of disk-thrash this following by 10 minutes of processor fan that followed by bloat software this and anti-virus software that, followed by won't work this and disk crash that.... and so on and so on and so on.....

Oh gawd, why did i wait so long.....?

And to think, I actually had Tanenbaum's book on Minux and thought of making it into something that I could play games on or create a real-time environment out of. Yes, i put that project on the shelf...

Imagine, [phase removed here cause it's still a cool idea] ....

Oh, I need to go back to school and get my engineering degree....

- perry

Don't feel too bad. 90%+ of us here ask exactly the same question. It seems so simple now, but way back when, it wasn't on anybody's mind.

I remember when I first started using Unix (yeah, all of two months ago )...the thought that expressed it best, for me, was this:

I can DO things here!

-pi314159

Heh. I was inspired by this to think about making up a parody of John Lennon's "Imagine" after reading this, but as I suspected, someone else had the idea first:

http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00333.html
http://www.henon.freeserve.co.uk/george/Imagine.htm