Can't we all just get along?

[mdlbear]

I'm always surprised at how emotional some people can get about my choice of software. I get ad-hominem attacks when I mention that I prefer Emacs and LaTeX to somebody's favorite WYSIWYG word processor. I stopped allowing anonymous comments after somebody literally accused me of "child abuse" (those words, exactly) when I mentioned that my kids sometimes used Linux. I continually get snide comments whenever I mention that, as a visual illiterate and long-time X user, I find the Mac user interface unuseable. (And I'm not saying that Windows is much better, but nobody sends me hate mail when I criticize Windows.)

Seriously, I get fewer flames when I mention that I'm an agnostic Druid. In fact, I don't think anyone has flamed me about my religion recently.

I'm not asking for tolerance, exactly. Or maybe I am. At least until Linux achieves its goal of world domination. Then we'll see who...

Oh. Right. Sorry about that.

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[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

jenkitty is much the same way; I got her a Windows 95 box in January of '98, and it lasted about three months before 95 ate the registry twice in as many weeks. I put Red Hat on it, and she's never looked back. She's now running Ubuntu on one of those el cheapo Fry's boxes that comes with Linspire on it, and she loves it. Yeah, I admin it for her, but she's got sudo access if she needs it, and knows how to kill java processes when they wonk out... she's only occasionally wistful about games, but that's usually when the net is down and she can't get to Yahoo. Now that we've finally got Speakeasy back, that shouldn't happen much anymore.