XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: pothead@snakebite.com   
      
   On 2025-08-30, Joel W. Crump  wrote:   
   > On 8/30/2025 12:41 AM, Tyrone wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>> people who run Linux tend to be more motivated.   
   >>   
   >> Because they have to be.  Desktop Linux mainly appeals to young geeks with   
   >> little/no money. Nothing wrong with that. I used to be one.   
   >>   
   >> But that was 25 years ago.  Now I am older and I have money. Because I have   
   a   
   >> career, not just "a job".  I am no longer interested in "compiling the   
   latest   
   >> kernel".  I am perfectly fine with paying someone else to do that for me.   
   >> That's why I moved on from Linux to Windows to Macs.   
   >>   
   >> Because I have more important things to do.   
   >   
   >   
   > I gave away a $200 Windows license to switch to Linux, and I've donated   
   > money to a distro.   
      
   You paid $200 for a Windows license?   
   You can get it legally for ~$20.   
      
   Too many red pills mixed with the blue ones?   
      
      
   --   
   pothead   
      
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    Then our choices make us."   
   -- Anne Frank   
      
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