It's the little things...

[Geeth]

After spending 3 days pulling hair out and cursing at the computers like a trooper becuase I couldn't get VNC to display from 1 ubuntu pc to the other and spending another day trying to get a torrent program that could run by command line (starting the program, and managing downloads) across SSH with no success.

I finally found out that I can get azureus working with a web manager which does do what I want, though would have rathered to do it all through ssh, but hey it works.

All this seemed somewhat worth while in a time consuming frustrating way.

Then after all this I learnt that I can change /etc/motd which affects what I see when I SSH to my downloading box. Also there are site that convert text into sexy (in a geek way) acsii for me. I finally realised that the things that seem to make linux enjoyable through the cat kicking stress and confusing of what in theory seems like a simple process, is the little customizable items to make it feel like it's yours.

I found it kind of strange that the biggest task that I had tried to do since recompiling my kernel on red hat 9 when I was errr... 17 wasn't as rewarding as changing one simple file to make it more mine.

I wasn't to sure the reason for this post / random rant when I started but now I think I have one.

Have you ever done just a little thing to your linux that just seems to make it feel so much better?

I think I will try rtorrent tonight.

[bigtomrodney]

Man I am with you 100%. I won't use anything but Linux, because when I use it I know it's mine. I have everything the way I want it and can run anything I want with a few clicks.

I've run odd services for remote access. I've had crazy themes. Now I run close to default but the main thing is that it's just how I like it.

With regard to doing something that makes me feel better; well back in the days of Mandrake 9.0 I was amazed by switching icon sets. Running TWM was insane. Getting my phone mounted over bluetooth.

But the time that really stood out as making me really appreciate Linux was getting a Dynamic DNS script working and running ssh so that I could control it from anywhere. All things I take for granted now but things that were earth shattering when taken in context with the junkers I was running on at the time.

[geniuz]

I agree too...the very first time I tried linux was using ubuntu about years ago.

In ubuntu I didn't had to much trouble but my computer didn't feel "mine" to put in your matter of speech. So I tried debian which, as I studied it, gave me more and more opportunities to "fine tuning" my computer...I'm talking about stuff like setting up networking manually, setting up a download system (for usenet) manually and ofcourse the applications you use...I switched a lot recently, mostly to command line based apps like vim, mocp and I even use the command line for file management nowadays...I believe it's user friendly enough, and it gives me a satisfied feeling that only I know how to control my computer. If I for instance boot up my PC and ask my father to find a certain file for, he would be totally lost (although my father isn't completely computer dumb). It just gives a safe and satisfied feeling I guess...

[jrbdc2k]

I'm still in the crawling stage with linux....still it beats the stuffing out
of unpaid beta testing for Mr. Gates!
I bought an Aseus EeePc...awesome laptop with linux pre-installed
Thanks to the entire community that's made this possible.
Nemaste, jrbdc2k