[CS-FSLUG] Nathan

[Timothy R. Butler]

I'd agree with David. 

Nathan: Please bear with me all the way to the end of the following.
It's kind of long, but I just don't have enough time to really condense
it -- hopefully you can still get the gist of it.

I think you need to reread those messages. None of us have been
attacking you. Rather, at times you get frustrated (or at least really
seem to by what I can tell from your messages) with GNU/Linux and beings
that were just one big happy group, we dispense advice. :-)

In my opinion there is nothing wrong with trying a gazillion
distributions. But, I think, to be truly happy with GNU/Linux, one needs
to pick out a distribution and make that the *primary* distribution --
the one that you use day-in and day-out. Then, on a separate partition
try all the distributions you want.

Your primary installation can be customized and tweaked until it works
or you -- like the others keep talking about. That doesn't mean you
won't change, but changing distributions every few weeks will mean you
will never be comfortable with any of them (simply because it takes more
than that long to make *any* OS the way most people generally want it).
I've found as I've settled down distribution wise, that I end up with my
own "blend" so to speak. I might upgrade every 6 months to a year, but
other testing is done separately. 

I can say from experience that this leads to much more GNU/Linux
enjoyment. Or, let's consider another example. When I first bought a
Mac, I liked it, but wasn't crazy about the OS. Now, there's only one
"real" OS for Macs (unless I'd just jump back to Linux), so I just kept
using it. After a few weeks I started to like it. After a few more weeks
it started to feel comfortable. After a few months I found some features
that started to become habit, and I'd find myself trying to use certain
key combos and such in GNU/Linux that only work on the Mac. The same is
true of the reverse.

On the other hand, before I committed to using GNU/Linux, I'd often
spend a few hours every so often in it (often I'd upgrade the distro,
then try it, then forget about it) and then go back to Windows. It never
felt comfortable. Then I switched and spent six or seven months tweaking
one distro -- that's when I really started to enjoy GNU/Linux.

At any rate, just keep in mind we are a bunch of Christian Linux users
that try to do our best. We give each other help and advice, and try not
to break down but only build up the people of this little Christian
body. But, we are all humans and it isn't going to be perfect. 

On a mailing list, you can't see what other people are really thinking.
When talking face to face, you can see people's facial expressions, on a
list, all you see is this text. So you need to provide people with a lot
more slack for potential disagreements on a list because something that
is just helpful advice might seem to the recipient as an attempt (as you
put it on your blog) to "tell me off." 

If I might make such a bold suggestion: whaddya say about taking off
that blog post for now? Try the peacemaking steps Jesus gave us: go
contact the people privately that you feel have hurt you. I bet they
will apologize and say they never meant to imply what you feel they are
implying. If not, talk to this list as a whole and see if we can't
resolve things. If none of that resolves the situation for you, then go
ahead and paste that entry back online -- I just doubt that will be
necessary.

	Just keep in mind we all love ya, bro. 

	Blessings to you...

	-Tim

On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 10:18, David McGlone wrote:
> Your Blog does not have the ability to post comments, so would you care if I 
> posted your most recent blog entry on my blog, because I think all this has 
> been misunderstood and you should at least give some of the people you 
> refered to a chance to explain themselves and explain to you why they chose 
> the words they did.
> 
> I really think you owe that to some of the people on this list, including me.
> 
> 
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