Dear Linux Nazis
This is why the world hates you.
I mean, talk about a downer... 'here's your Christmas card, plus the operating system that I like using and feel an obsessive need to force onto everyone else... now I can legitimately pester you about buying into my thought-cult in a way that I can't if I rely on you having some actual desire to try out the platform'.
Don't get me wrong... I'd feel the same about someone sending a bible with every christmas card, or a copy of the Koran (although that opens up some fairly interesting internal conflict that could add a delicious hint of irony to the whole thing).
If people want to try out the operating system, they can... it's free[1], after all. Regardless of how you package a personalised Linux distribution, you're still going to come across as an evangelical nutter who Just Doesn't Get It. After all, how much Goodwill do AOL get sent their way on a daily basis? :-P
[1] Insert usual caveat about linux only being free if your time is worthless.
I mean, talk about a downer... 'here's your Christmas card, plus the operating system that I like using and feel an obsessive need to force onto everyone else... now I can legitimately pester you about buying into my thought-cult in a way that I can't if I rely on you having some actual desire to try out the platform'.
Don't get me wrong... I'd feel the same about someone sending a bible with every christmas card, or a copy of the Koran (although that opens up some fairly interesting internal conflict that could add a delicious hint of irony to the whole thing).
If people want to try out the operating system, they can... it's free[1], after all. Regardless of how you package a personalised Linux distribution, you're still going to come across as an evangelical nutter who Just Doesn't Get It. After all, how much Goodwill do AOL get sent their way on a daily basis? :-P
[1] Insert usual caveat about linux only being free if your time is worthless.
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Oh, a comment from the thread:
When it comes to computers, most people don't know what's good for them, so they need a little help.That's the other reason why the world hates you. Don't assume that just because you like your computer running a particular way that you're in any way better. If people don't care enough to look for an alternative to what they're already running, then guess what... what they have is good for them. :-P
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