Good for you :) glad you have been able to find a little more freedom :)<div><br></div><div>Just a warning, OSS applications do sometimes still contain errors, bugs and shortcomings. fortunately most groups and developers are far more open about them. And are more interested in getting them working than company profits.</div>
<div><br></div><div>While a little old, some wonderful musings on the situation of operating systems can be found here "In the Beginning was the Command Line": <a href="http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html">http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html</a></div>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 July 2011 14:19, Stephen Ryan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:intrench@googlemail.com">intrench@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi, I just wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you to Rene for spending 4 hours with me on Saturday installing Ubuntu using Wubi on my laptop.<div>
I'm now the proud owner of a Ubuntu laptop and last night I was working and even forgot I was not working in Windows.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My computing experience seems safer now and I have better visibility of what data is going in and out of my computer.</div><div>With Windows I felt owned by Microsoft and the anti-virus computer companies. Now i feel more free, which I know is weird.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>My next step is to learn how to write commands to manage my wordpress blogs. </div></div><div>I am dumping all the error prone windows apps and learning to write Bash scripts to replace the majority of functions.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thank you again Rene, for getting me started and for sharing your valuable time.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind Regards</div><div>Stephen</div><div>(Lympne, Kent)</div>
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