From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECoe1-0004CI-HQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:22:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j871HBsA013031; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 01:17:11 GMT Received: from smtp.istop.com (smtp.istop.com [66.11.167.126]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8715IIa026389 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 01:05:19 GMT Received: from waltdnes.org (i216-58-10-213.cybersurf.com [216.58.10.213]) by smtp.istop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 503CD2B3C9 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 21:09:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 6 Sep 2005 21:08:50 -0400 From: waltdnes@waltdnes.org Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 21:08:50 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ? Message-ID: <20050907010850.GD26857@waltdnes.org> References: <200509010402.j8141G5V026647@robin.gentoo.org> <43171ED0.6040402@Media-Brokers.com> <20050903223954.GA2047@waltdnes.org> <5bdc1c8b05090315561f193c1b@mail.gmail.com> <20050904190742.4dfd4d46@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <5bdc1c8b050904130268e0cde5@mail.gmail.com> <20050904215718.1c64d0f0@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <5bdc1c8b0509041411517d35ae@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0509041411517d35ae@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: e13bdc5c-22a7-4331-a076-2fbe3e3a34e9 X-Archives-Hash: d2a270e27285fcf0c21bfd1a198bcd27 On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 02:11:51PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote > My 'disagreement', if there is one, is that a savings of $300 for a > new computer and a $99 Windows upgrade won't convince many people to > learn to do it themselves using Linux. It takes a much stronger reason > than that, at least in my limited part of the planet. How about "the hard truth"... Admiinistering Linux is hard. Keeping a Windows machine free of spyware is harder. -- Walter Dnes My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list