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Originally Posted by Katsunami
You know what the paradox is? I *LIKE* jacking around and tinkering with computers, but I *HATE* actually doing it.
The reason is that I like doing it if I sit down specifically to jack around with stuff; to get something running that wouldn't normally run, to make something that doesn't yet exist, and so on. I dislike it when I sit down to do something else, such as downloading ebooks, or playing a game, for example, and *then* I have to mess around with it before actually starting the thing I wanted to do.
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Very nicely said.
This is why I had to leave a fantastic, very elegantly designed operating system - FreeBSD and start using Mint Linux.
When you sat down and properly configured FreeBSD to your liking (somewhere between the legendary 4.8 release and 6.0) it worked like a charm. But newer versions ceased to play nicely with my hardware (and the newer versions of programs I wanted to use) and the only solution was to start using something different. I tested lots of things, looking for something that would work with minimal fuss.
I ended up using Mint Linux - most things are configured to my liking "out of the box".
I am fortunate that the vast majority of things I want to do on my computer can be done on Linux with minimum of tinkering. On the other hand, if you feel like you want to tinker with something, there plenty of things you can play with.
But - operating systems are not a religion. They are tools, so you should use what works best for you.