<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com" target="_blank">jra@baylink.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 12:15:17PM -0800, Steve Peters - Priority Electronics wrote:<br>
</div><div>> 1. was it because you heard about myth, so you learned to use linux<br>
> so you could run myth,<br>
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> 2. was it because you like linux so you then went and used myth,<br>
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> 3. or was it because you don't like microsoft, so that's why you're<br>
> in linux, and hence, why you chose myth?<br>
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</div></blockquote><div><br>I started with linux a few years ago as part of another project (me and a friend of mine were crunching numbers on a crude home-brew 10 node cluster) using Fedora Core 4. From that experience, I thought about switching to Linux for my desktop, but it didn't seem ready yet. Then, when Vista came out, I was feeling sick of Windows XP and wanted something new. A the time, the reports of Vista's quality were not the best, and the idea of sending $400 for legal copy of Windows Vista Ultimate was just too much to swallow. I had recently installed Ubuntu 6.10 on an old PC I had lying around, and found myself playing with that 90% of the time. At that point in occurred to me that I could just install Ubuntu on my main desktop system. It seemed things had come a long way since the days of FC4, so I gave it a shot. I haven't looked back since. <br>
<br>I first learned of myth while looking for
a UPnP server to serve a D-Link DSM-520. It kept coming up in
searches, though it appeared to be way more than I wanted. After reading about Myth for awhile, it occurred to me that for what 1 years worth of digital cable service/box rentals for my two TVs, etc. I could easily buy the components to build a myth system. I already had a Linux file server that I could convert, and an old PVR-250 I bought in 2002 (and hadn't used since 2002 since the bundled software sucked). I really didn't consider any other options. <br>
<br>So I guess I got into myth not for anti-Microsoft reasons, and not for pro-Linux reasons, but really, because I was unhappy with my experience with Time Warner's Digital Cable. <br> </div></div><br>