[ale] Cheap wireless adapter find (Richard Faulkner)

[Richard Faulkner]

Netflix does NOT run on Linux.  I've talked to them by phone and heard
the schpeal...put in a plug to support Linux but doesn't sound like
they'll be doing it anytime soon.  Thanks Microsoft!

My boys have the LCD panel in the living room if they want to watch
Netflix (which they do all the time - that or PBS).  Otherwise they
drive Ubuntu like the rest of us....they are 3-1/2 and 5-1/2 years
old...

My teen has a windows machine and hates it.  My wife has a pair of
windows machines but only due to hardware requirements related to studio
recording she does for broadcasting.  Other than that it's all about
Linux for her too...




-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
Reply-to: cfowler at opsdc.com, Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
To: Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
Cc: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] Cheap wireless adapter find (Richard Faulkner)
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:47:08 -0400


On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 22:38 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> My kids use Linux. My 12 year old is happy pounding command line. My
> 21 year old was very adamant when she was getting a laptop for college
> that it "not run that windows crap".
> 
> In the past 20 I've seen no good reason to park a child in front of a
> windows machine so much so I almost consider it child abuse to run
> windows around kids. 

This girl is 6 and wants to watch Netflix.  I don't think I can run
Netflix under Linux yet.  When I can, the windows crap is gone.


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