05-12-2023, 01:55 AM
(05-11-2023, 11:51 PM)Kernelpanic Wrote: The supporters, the 105 percent supporters of Linux, are characterized by their "Linux hopping".
Today this lover, tomorrow another. Well, what do one call those lover who wanders from lover to lover?
I don't believe in marriage for love and happiness. For companionship, yes. For business safety, maybe. Much less do I believe in that with something that cannot talk back, cannot have feelings and doesn't care what one does with it.
I don't think distro-hopping is like changing lovers. The distros that I keep are like my good friends. The ones that totally bombed are like traitors, liars, cheaters and other bad people. The ones that made a good try to impress, because they were too slow, because they had a counterintuitive or controversial feature, because they were difficult to install or something else, are like work colleagues. Maybe they could be friends for convenience but otherwise cue up that song "I'm Not One of Your Friends!"
A distro-hopper might look bad to other people who don't understand having freedom of choice. Meanwhile, a lot of users of Unix and Unix-like operating systems can't understand why people tie themselves so much to a proprietary thing, that is not noticed as such only because it comes pre-installed on over 90% of computers being sold. The ones buying from Malibal and other such outlets, however, are beginning to blur the lines of conceit a little bit.
There is at least one distro, Manjaro KDE, that I had to reinstall twice. Once because I was dissatisfied with its behavior and thought I could improve on it. This isn't much different from people who backed up Windows and end up restoring that image after six months of usage, whether or not they are fond of installers and whether or not they could use software that keeps being made and broken on a given computer.
In the first period of online access on the older Toshiba computer I had, which now has a dead hard disk, I installed WindowsXP Service Pack 3 over SP2. I was dissatisfied with its performance, especially a few seconds after pressing the Windows key, before the Start menu opened. There were other things that convinced me to roll back to the Toshiba restoration DVD which gave me back SP2 and nothing else because I couldn't have Internet when I decided to do that.
If it doesn't work out and I believe I could do better, and I am able to, I'm going to make the change without hesitation. I have already purged Windows10 from a computer that I have, however I'm almost not using it these days. But on the laptop I am on frequently I seldom go into Windows because I don't have a good excuse for it, not even to help out people on this forum with issues with QB64(PE) on Windows.