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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