The conversation II
M: how do you know, you haven’t used it yet.
E: I don’t want to find out, why should I?
M: Because you’re using something that’s not as good as something else…
E: but its more than sufficient for me
M: so you’re gonna be satisfied with less than perfect?
E: I’m gonna be satisfied, isn’t that what we’re trying to get to anyway… satisfaction?
M: but…
Well, we backed and forthed like this for a bit, until we got to an impasse, I’ve never had any reason to shift to linux, but I’ve never had any reason not to, and yes it is better, cheaper, more democratic, and all in all, an upgrade. But for me, it would mean unfamiliarity, change, things going wrong that I don’t understand, and lot else. And the question remained, why?
It was much later, last night actually, that I found out why Linux is not the most popular OS…
I was talking to a couple of friends, one of them, G, has messed up his computer. It boots, and then hangs, almost simultaneously. He was asking the resident super tech geek M, what to do. M being different to the one above, who if you haven’t yet guessed, is a woman.
This M told G that the only option he had was to format his disk, and re-install the OS. I chipped in with the best place to buy a pirated CD from. But G was slightly unconvinced about using illegal software… so I suggested Linux.
M Liked the idea, in fact he even suggested a couple of distributions he had, and it seemed pretty good, until…
M(the tech geek) : what do you use the computer for?
G: well, writing, movies, and I don’t know… music
M: you don’t play games or anything do you?
G: well… sometimes, actually yeah I do.
M: well Linux doesn’t run games.
So now all I have to do, is tell the initial M about my discovery. That will take sometime, she doesn’t speak to me anymore. I thought it was because I still windows, but it turns out its because I respect tailors.
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A Conversation
A conversation:
M: so why don’t you use Linux?
E: well actually I don’t know, why should I?
M: because its better…
E: in what way
M it doesn’t hang, it doesn’t get viruses, its easy to use, its smarter than windows and osx, and in general just better.
E: my system doesn’t hang either, I don’t connect to the net, so I don’t care about viruses, Windows is just smart enough for me to use, and in all, I cant quite see any thing wrong in windows.
M: but linus is better
E: but I don’t really need something better.
M: but why use something that is worse, if you can have something better.
E: because I already have something, which is good enough for me, I don’t see the point of investing in getting something that I don’t really need, and am unfamiliar with.
M: well its free
E: its still not on my computer already
M: you’re just lazy
E: no I have better things to do
M: like what?
E: end this conversation.
M: but why cant you use Linux
E: I don’t see the point of it
M: its better
E: but it may not be more appropriate
The conclusion to this fascinating conversation later
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