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Thu, Apr 06, 2006

[Icon][Icon]I can't take it any more

• Post categories: Omni, FOSS, My Life

A fair while ago, there were an unusually high number of trolls on LinuxQuestions, complaining that Linux had let them down by not being a Windows clone. Thus was born a short article in which I explained that it wasn't supposed to be.

Rather than accept the correction, the trolls threw up ever-more arguments, and so the article grew in fits & starts. It got dugg and linked from any number of other places, and has been translated into eight other languages.

Trouble is, it's not actually particularly well-written, because it grew here & there, bit by bit. It's not really targeted at any specific audience, and tends too often to sound like an elitist rant, rather than the helpful guide it was intended to be. And I pretty much had to leave it alone because of all the translated versions out there.

But I can't face leaving it in such a state. So I'm re-writing it. Not even editing it: A complete fresh start.

Hence I'm not writing so much on here right now.

Sorry about that... but you'll be the first to know when the new version's out ;o)

6 comments

ray
Comment from: ray [Visitor] · http://lostaddress.org
Cool. Don't forget to submit it to the articles section on LQ. Hope you get something you're happy with.
06/04/06 @ 15:09
hari
Comment from: hari [Visitor] · http://hari.literaryforums.org
Why rewrite it? I don't see anything wrong with it.

Anyway eagerly awaiting version 2.0 of Linux!=Windows. :)
06/04/06 @ 20:49
hari
Comment from: hari [Visitor] · http://hari.literaryforums.org
By the way, purely off topic: did you get the e-mail I sent you?
06/04/06 @ 21:04
oneandoneis2
Comment from: oneandoneis2 [Member] · http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/
I don't see anything wrong with it.

That's because you don't get the hate mail ;o)

Seriously, tho: It just doesn't say what I want it to say, the way I want to say it. Every time I re-read it, it irritates me.
07/04/06 @ 03:46
titanium_geek
Comment from: titanium_geek [Visitor] · http://www.creativehedgehog.com
hey- any help needed with translating into spanish, or hey, australian, then drop me a line.

My favourite essay writing tip/speech so far-
"Always read your own work. Then get someone unreleated to the subject to read it- your housemates, family- distribute copies on the bus..."
09/04/06 @ 04:37
Janka
Comment from: Janka [Visitor]
Your original article pointed out "why we don't care" in fashion foundet on logic. But that's not how people writing hate mail tick. Hate mail is emotional, and people who write it consider emotion is of the same quality (in its deepest sense) as logic.

So there's no point in editing your article to make that people understand better, as that's not the problem.
10/04/06 @ 05:43

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