sunrat 2,126 Posted April 22, 2019 We Have Everything We Need And Should Be Thankful...The Rest Is Just Excuses We are indeed blessed to have Linux. Excuse me while I vent for just a minute here. I have been thinking about this for a while now, and tonight I was sitting here jamming music on Amarok, one of the long-forgotten but truly amazing projects to ever come out of the KDE Community. And I thought, how blessed are we? I mean if there's something you want to do on Linux, you can do it. And if you say you cannot, it's merely an excuse and a rehashing of old ideologies or technical limitations that no longer can possibly hold any merit. ... PS. my title is a slight twist on a Massive Attack song in case you missed the reference. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 10,595 Posted April 22, 2019 It's very nice but i wouldn't call it "blessed". A lot of hard work was put in by many people to make linux what it is today. It is truly a great thing for so many people to collaboratively work on a project without any monetary drive to do and then to give it away for all to use. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
raymac46 2,476 Posted April 22, 2019 (edited) I'm sure we all have our own reasons, but I am personally grateful for all the vintage hardware that keeps on keeping on thanks to Linux. All I have to do is look around the house: A classic AMD dual core from 2008 still pumping out Spotify in the basement workroom. My daughter's clapped out old HP laptop with a broken hinge siting on the workbench in case I need to check something on the Internet. My home-built AMD Piledriver desktop that the grandkids had a great time with playing PBS video games yesterday. A lovely old Thinkpad that went to Europe and back and runs Debian like a champion. A memory challenged Toshiba netbook that drove its former owner crazy trying to run Windows 7, but now serves as a testbed for Arch Linux and a whole bunch of lightweight applications. All of this stuff would likely be in a landfill by now if not for various flavors of Linux. Edited April 22, 2019 by raymac46 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
V.T. Eric Layton 6,377 Posted April 22, 2019 GNU/Linux is so wonderful for me for one simple reason: I don't have to depend on Microsoft or Apple products for anything... EVER! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebrke 1,291 Posted April 22, 2019 . . . I am personally grateful for all the vintage hardware that keeps on keeping on thanks to Linux.As someone who is able to hold on to older hardware and save some money, I will certainly second that. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cluttermagnet 861 Posted May 5, 2019 I have a lot of gratitude in my life, and that makes my life way better. Thanks for the reminder- Linux changed my entire home computing experience for the better. And how! I am so grateful I got to leave the MS security bozo shuffle- that was eating a tremendous amount of my precious time! Kudos to all who contributed to such a wonderful resource! Clutter 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
abarbarian 3,146 Posted May 5, 2019 I am so grateful I got to leave the MS security bozo shuffle- that was eating a tremendous amount of my precious time! Kudos to all who contributed to such a wonderful resource! Clutter I'll second that thought. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
