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2010-02-12
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@ earth?
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2010-02-12
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@ earth?
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2010-02-12
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However,
People say "Why are you annoyed?...What do you mean your proprietory graphics driver is no longer supported?...You are having problems with the wireless driver?"
Then I say "Because its f***ing running Linux!"
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2010-02-12
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You can turn that around to lessen frustration (by shifting blame from "us" in the community to others), though:
"Because the evil scumbags that manufacture the hardware want to make money by not giving people Freedom, which would obviously be the right thing to do."
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2010-02-12
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2010-02-12
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2010-02-12
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2010-02-12
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@ This side of insane, that side of genius
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2010-02-12
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I just had to come and share this with you guys:
[ My friend: "[After 2hrs of idle time] Your phone's still connected to the PC."
Me: "Yeah."
Friend: "I think the download must be paused by now. You'll probably need to reconnect again to continue tethering. Let's go check on it."
Me: "Nah the device was designed to be connected to the internet all day long."
Friend: "Yeah, I know, but how can you be sure it's still connected?"
Me: "Because its running Linux."
Friend:" Yeah but how about your PC OS, I bet that's bugged the connection out."
Me: "Nah, that's running Linux as well."
Friend: "Ah, OK." ]
This is a nice true story with me running Maemo on my N900 and Ubuntu on my laptop. Doing a huge download of Freespace2!
To me Linux is so reliable, that simply thinking "It's running Linux" is explanation enough to stop -- worrying. Something I've never experienced with other platforms.
Have you guys had similar "Because its running Linux" experiences?