Re: [LAU] Poll - Was: Hey everyone, a simple question.

On Thu, March 21, 2013 9:59 am, Neil wrote: It is interesting how people's experience shapes what they expect. Apple was always out of my price range and still is. I started out with an atari mega and various bought/shareware/freeware/DIYware. It had a nice sequencer and as I had only 4 tracks, putting MTC on one track gave me drums and keys up to 16 tracks as well as three analog tracks. Got interested in BBSs and set one up. only problem I couldn't do music at the same time. Got an old (even then) 286 MB and PS (no case) and put DRdos on it and ran maximus. A friend had windows (3.1 back then) ran two lines, when the second line connected, the first slowed down to 1/4... we're talking 3kbaud here, and had to use a mechanical timer to restart the system at least once a day. So when I went two lines I used OS/2 (IBM was giving 2.1 away in hopes of selling 3.0) I could go on holidays for two weeks and come back to a running system. One line had no effect on the other. Then the Internet started to show up. I wanted to do networking, but IBM wanted big money for network drivers for OS/2. Windows didn't really have it either. and this was still pre win95. I ended up with Linux about 93 or 94, Slackware pre 1.0. I ported my BBS over (hand coded the lot) and have been with it ever since. Apple is still over priced and windows has never really (for me) caught up, at least in the things that matter. I have experienced windows in various ways. 95 on my wifes machine, till it got infected, NT at work, saw lots of crashes, we used Linux to load/back it up though, win ME was broken and never fixed, win 7 is slow, even Ubuntu vanilla is faster. So Apple has priced themselves out of my interest. I can't afford the hardware, and most SW has to be bought. Windows still doesn't just work, you seem to need to buy a boat load of utilities to keep it infection free and keep it from slowing down, it really isn't a multi user system, but a multiuser hack on top of a single user kernel (last I checked). MS does not fix problems in a timely manner. The license seems to indicate that if I make music on their system they own a part of it. They seem to have a right to all the files on my disk too... not acceptable. (maybe the lic has changed?) Anyone with that kind of license would have a right to add access for themselves to my computer. So for me migrating to Linux has never been an issue, it is where I started, and every time I look at something else... switching looks really painful, better to make what I have work. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net