[tlug] TLUG, not TLPG

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

February 21st, 2004

Re: "Just curious, Lyle, but by the above, do you mean that you are 
"migrating" over to Linux for *home* use?  Or, are you saying that you 
will soon be using only Linux *at work*?"

Somewhere in-between those two.  I depend on having a machine that I can 
both write with and stuff text into the wires with, and I've been 
experiencing problems with external probing affecting the three W2K 
boxes I and others in my "home office" are using.  (I also have an 
assortment of ugly beige boxes, including W95, W98j, W98e, W2Kj, W2Ke, 
RH Linux & Suse Linux... and one ancient Mac that I bought for Y1,000)  
Strictly going by usability and support for the applications that I 
depend on, I don't actually mind W2K so much, but the lack of security 
for whatever reason - whether due to EvilEpire boxes being targets or 
just being faulty programs in the first place, makes it nerve-wracking 
to use them.  As I say, I depend on these machines for my livelihood.  
It seems to me that Linux is a more secure way to pull information out 
of the wires and to stuff text back into them... that, combined with the 
desire to escape from having to use EvilEmpire products, makes me like 
Linux.  Not to mention that I read and liked Linus Torvalds book.  The 
thuggish behavior of Emperor Bill with his "illegal" messages when his 
bloody software fails are so infuriating, that there is a certain peace 
of mind and happiness to writing on a machine with no EvilEmpire 
software in it. Even though... as I write this, I'm thinking "I've got 
to find a decent text editor in Linux... I can't be writing only with 
OpnOf Writer...".

I know there are several good text editors for Linux - can someone point 
out one... say Bluefish maybe?  I remember someone recommending that one 
before but I can't find it in any of the menus, although I suspect it 
must be in one of the six or seven disks that came with my boxed set of 
Suse Linux 9.0.

I do apologize for not being a programmer, but I figured that since this 
is TLUG and not TLPG, it might be alright to ask strictly user-related 
questions... "users" is part of the TLUG name after all....

Lyle

PS  I put Linux on a couple of computers at a couple of the offices I 
formerly worked at... and positively terrified the inept (even more so 
than myself) IT people at both places....