Well, I’m trying to be politically correct:
Meredith came in to the office and looked at the screen, and sternly said: “You’re not using Linux, are you?”
Uh. Er. Um.
Same sort of voice you would expect to hear out of someone who was chastising you for using a gas-guzzler car and incandescent lightbulbs.
I told her that there were some things I was utterly stuck with Windows on. Work pretty much demands that I work with Dreamweaver templates for the website, so that’s my tool, and that’s on Windows. If I’m making a set of DVDs for Mommy of her favorite craft show downloaded off of the TiVos for future reference, the best software for that is on Windows. And so on.
I jus fetched the old HP Laserjet 4P out of storage, for my use in the office; Susan has a very nice color laser printer upstairs in her office, but it’s far more expensive to use, and 90% of my use is in printing up my news articles for reading on the train, or how-to stuff on computer things I need to do or fix, so a straight black and white laser works a whole lot more cheaply.
Problem was that the power cord had gone off into the ether - and that the present computer I have does not have a parallel printer port. So I have to ditch the old printer cable and buy a new one that converts to USB. Sheesh.
I’m also setting up a file server in Ubuntu in the basement (an old project of mine) in a stray Linux box that I bought a long time ago, and have a 500 Gig hard drive for it - but it’s SATA, and the present hardware on the box doesn’t support that. So I bought a $40 card for the box that can handle two internal SATAs and one external eSATA connection. I think that should handle the matter!