<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Mar 1, 2008, at 12:15 PM, Steve Peters - Priority Electronics wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div> <div><span class="717550520-01032008"><font face="Arial" size="2">This is somewhat of a poll question. I'm just curious to see what peoples' answers are.</font></span></div> <div><span class="717550520-01032008"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span class="717550520-01032008"><font face="Arial" size="2">I have seen so much hatred among linux users against microsoft (and rarely against Apple, who to me seems worse). Some of the complaints I understand and sometimes agree with, but sometimes it seems that linux people have real hatred towards Microsoft...like really really bad hatred.</font></span></div> <div><span class="717550520-01032008"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span class="717550520-01032008"><font face="Arial" size="2">So i'm wondering...why did you start to use myth...</font></span></div> <div><span class="717550520-01032008"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span class="717550520-01032008"><font face="Arial" size="2">1. was it because you heard about myth, so you learned to use linux so you could run myth,</font></span></div> <div><span class="717550520-01032008"><font face="Arial" size="2">2. was it because you like linux so you then went and used myth,</font></span></div> <div><span class="717550520-01032008"><font face="Arial" size="2">3. or was it because you don't like microsoft, so that's why you're in linux, and hence, why you chose myth?</font></span></div> <div><span class="717550520-01032008"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span class="717550520-01032008"><font face="Arial" size="2">I'm a 1-er myself. I like that myth gives me the customization I like and that I can add frontends to it which microsoft mce doesn't let you do as far as i know. So i've learned quite a bit about linux during this myth process...still a work in progress.</font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>I never even considered a Microsoft-branded solution. I looked at MythTV, SageTV and a few others I don't remember now. I chose MythTV because I wanted to have as many tuners as I wanted, as much storage as I wanted, DVDs conveniently on a hard drive, music and photos integrated, write customized scripts to create video podcasts of my recordings, etc. etc. MythTV was the most mature project at the time in my opinion. Oh, and I saw a video podcast about how easy it was to set up KnoppMyth and decided it would be easy to try out on a spare machine I had. It was. 30 minutes after the install, I was watching TV with it and it sort of grew out of control from there. :)</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>-Brad</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>