[Klug-general] Thank You Rene

[Stephen Ryan]

Thanks David. Psychological freedom is especially important for agoraphobics
:)
Agoraphobia reduces your movement outside and Microsoft reduces movement.
So Linux is "non-agoraphobic" technology for me.

Stephen

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 2:45 PM, David Halliday <david.halliday at gmail.com>wrote:

> Good for you :) glad you have been able to find a little more freedom :)
>
> 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.
>
> While a little old, some wonderful musings on the situation
> of operating systems can be found here "In the Beginning was the Command
> Line": http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
>
>
>
> On 3 July 2011 14:19, Stephen Ryan <intrench at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> 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.
>>
>> My computing experience seems safer now and I have better visibility of
>> what data is going in and out of my computer.
>> With Windows I felt owned by Microsoft and the anti-virus computer
>> companies. Now i feel more free, which I know is weird.
>>
>> My next step is to learn how to write commands to manage my wordpress
>> blogs.
>> I am dumping all the error prone windows apps and learning to write Bash
>> scripts to replace the majority of functions.
>>
>> Thank you again Rene, for getting me started and for sharing your valuable
>> time.
>>
>> Kind Regards
>> Stephen
>> (Lympne, Kent)
>>
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