Re: [Pan-users] Re: pan on Win 7 "attachment not shown" bug

[Joe Zeff]

On 03/30/2010 10:09 AM, Duncan wrote:
> Meh.  MS pushed me off that costly upgrade wheel some time ago, and I
> landed on Linux.  That's perhaps the best thing I hold MS at least in part
> responsible for. =:^)

I stuck with Win98 long after others had moved on partially because of 
the cost and partially because I've never liked the "NT kernel" and some 
of the (to me bad) choices they made.  Jerry Pournelle once asked me 
what I'd do when it wasn't possible any longer to get new software or 
updates for 98 and I told him that as I was already dual-booting Linux, 
I'd switch to it completely.  He gave me a strange look.  I've been 
running straight Linux, now, ever since Fedora 9 came out, and when I 
showed him the desktop effects Compiz can do, he was impressed enough to 
mention them in his column.  And, my sister, who's no tech and just 
wants things to work, uses the latest Ubuntu on her desktop, with a 
Windows laptop for things she needs that won't run under Wine.

As you write, further on, there's always a choice, you just have to be 
willing to look outside your current box.