[humorix] Some Old Fogie Speaks Out Against Linux

[James Baughn <jbaughn@ldd.net>]

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Some Old Fogie Speaks Out Against Linux
May 31, 2001

You know, life was much better back in the Good Ole Days of
the late 20th Century. Back then Linux held maybe 0.01% of
the desktop market. Now it's everywhere.

Go into any software site and it's Linux Linux Linux from
frame to frame! And  you know what?  Most of it is crap!

Take games. I remember when only the best games were ported
to Linux. The  Windows Lusers had to wade through bargain
bin after bargain bin hoping to  find something worthwhile
in the selection. Now every crappy idea for a Total
Immersion Videogame has been done twenty times over for
Linux. How do you even know which one is worth connecting
your cerebrum to?

You can even get Microsoft Office for Linux if you dig into
the back of the  shelf. Back in my day, pigs would have
flown before that happened. Of course, the creation of the
genetically engineering pig-chicken that eliminated world
hunger changed all that.

And you knew which hardware companies produced the best
stuff because they were the first to release the source
code to their drivers. But now everybody does it, so how
can you choose which company to buy from?

And only technical people cound configure their systems,
while today every  five year old in the world knows how to
fire up vi and edit a text file. It's all Linux's fault!

And you didn't have to decide which free operating system
to install.  You had Linux... and Linux... and maybe BSD
for the hard-core geeks. Now we have to choose between
Linux 54.2,  HURD 39.2, AtheOS 40.4, FreeBe 26, HumorixOS
9.6, Matrix 7.8 and MacOS L. You young people  just don't
appreciate how much freedom you have today.

And when I was a boy, I had to walk 30 metres to the bus
stop, uphill both ways, in the snow and rain.  We didn't
have any of this nonsense about teleporting to school.  And
we liked it!

And when you got cancer, you died. And stayed dead...

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