[ale] Boot issues - OR - why Mafia$oft hurts/disappoints everyone endlessly

[Chris Fowler]

On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 19:43 -0500, Mike Harrison wrote:
> The big issue is a establishing that common interest,
> setting the vocabulary and values, and then supporting it.
> It's hard. 

A friend years ago said to me "How do you know so much about Linux?"

Answer:  "Immersion".

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If you spend your days (at work) locked into Windows and don't do much
at home then don't expect much progress.  I've been lucky that at a
majority of my time working I've been exposed to and using some form of
UNIX.  During the short period where I had to run Windows on my work
machine my progress was severely limited!

I hate to say it but Linux is like anything else in life.  If you want
to learn it you must use it (often).  You can't spend 8 hours at work
running Windows XP then come home and browse the Internet on Linux.  You
have to _really_ use it!

When your life becomes complicated with a wife and kids then your time
is shortened and you need more than ever to use it where you can (at
work).  Otherwise, it is over.....
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In those cases where I needed Windows to communicate (office crap), I
ran Windows in a VMWare guest while doing everything else in Linux.