[mythtv-users] why you use myth...like myth, or hate Microsoft

[Andrew Sayers]

Steve Peters - Priority Electronics wrote:
> This is somewhat of a poll question. I'm just curious to see what
> peoples' answers are.
>  
> 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.
>  
> So i'm wondering...why did you start to use myth...
>  
> 1. was it because you heard about myth, so you learned to use linux so
> you could run myth,
> 2. was it because you like linux so you then went and used myth,
> 3. or was it because you don't like microsoft, so that's why you're in
> linux, and hence, why you chose myth?

2 for me, being a Linuxer for many years now.

I always got the impression that people tend to go through a stage of
hating Microsoft around the time they switch (I certainly did).  But
then after a while you stop thinking of yourself as a Windows user, and
all the little things somehow lose their power over you.

However, there's a difference between Linux users and anti-conformists.
 You'll find people that are fanatically opposed to any big established
thing - Microsoft, television, the English language, you name it.  They
all have some good arguments, but they're in it for the sense of
identity rather than the logic.

	- Andrew