If you used Windows before, why did you switch or now use Linux more 5084

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:59:12 -0400, Adam McCarthy

First, if you want people to respond, you probably should use a valid e-mail address.

But, to answer your question, there were two reasons why I switched to linux. The first was that I was supposed to use AIX on my office machine at work, so needed to learn what unix was all about. The second was that it was a royal pain to try to get a decent version of TeX on a dos-windows-3.1 machine (you would not believe the batch files I had to write), and TeX ran like a champ on linux even back in the old days when I took it up -- even before it could manage networking at all, it was a thing of beauty to write mathematics with.

As a side benefit, I no longer had the moral dilemma of using pirated-shareware software. Even now, most windows users I know still violate license agreements --- made all the more restrictive by MicroSoft --- but I don't have to worry. All the software I use is now under the gpl, or is legally obtained.

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David L. Johnson

o You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say this; but `-(, what canst thou say? -- George Fox. ()()