sunrat Posted April 22, 2019 Share 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted April 22, 2019 Share 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted April 22, 2019 Share 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted April 22, 2019 Share 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrke Posted April 22, 2019 Share 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cluttermagnet Posted May 5, 2019 Share 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted May 5, 2019 Share 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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