Bye Linux
I suppose I salvaged the weekend. It was a close call, though. It’s days like these that make my fragility unavoidable. It stares me in the face, consumes me, brings me down. I’ve learned to be careful and to respect it.
I made an odd decision this weekend. I’m sick of Linux. It’s just not ready for prime time. The straw that broke the camel’s back was the absolute chore of trying to get X-Windows to cooperate with my old Seiko monitor. Bottom line: my time is too valuable to waste on simple problems like getting a monitor to work. Until Linux gets all that basic shit straightened out—X-Windows, fonts, drivers—I’ll check my achingly cliché anti-MS sentiments at the door and go with Win2k. It’s pretty darn stable, and besides, it works. You Linux kids can keep your principles. I’ll keep my spare time.
BUT, with that said, I did install an interesting addition to Windows called CYGWIN. It runs a full, Red Hat-ish environment inside of any Win32 OS, and in the case of NT/2K/XP, allows you to start UNIX daemons as services. Intriguing, huh?
I want to write a solid, original short story. I wrote a little bit tonight, and maybe something will come of it. Producing something that is new, original, and of me is particularly satisfying.