FedoraRefugee wrote:It gets old to hear all the Linux cheerleaders all the time too
Maybe... Linux cheerleaders? Oh my god!
Allow me simply to quote an excerpt from a web post by another guy just to show my current mood:
I have also lost the capacity to be enthusiastic towards anything, because this is how the world has evolved. Not only the Linux world became increasingly frivolous, but there is no real chance to have a quality OS with quality software in the foreseeable future. Oh boy, I was almost happy in the times of MS/PC/DR-DOS!
(...) And we’re shallow, always in a hurry, and too busy with things that have no real significance. The other day I explored the possibility to keep being “social” through Facebook and Twitter, but after a short visit to my Facebook account, I felt I would go mad. How are all those people finding any pleasure to waste their time that way? (OK, the 999 TV channels, all full of ****, they also made us stupid.)
Everything changes, but not for the best.
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I am not immune to anything that happens in this world. I too am dumber. I feel dumber than how I was 2 years ago. I feel dumber than how I was 4 years ago. I feel dumber than how I was 10 years ago. I feel dumber than how I was 20 years ago.
The world is concerned about the bling-bling details in everything (and they lack the good taste so badly). There is no focus on things that matter.
Disappointments, bitterness, the feeling that I am living in the worst possible world (and immutable, despite its apparent dynamics)… all this brainwashed me in some ways.
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to know that tomorrow things will be worst, globally speaking.
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I don’t believe in any of the aspects that currently drive the “innovation” in IT. I’ll just sit and watch the apocalypse coming.
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The IT is lacking the common sense, but under the circumstances we must accept that Windows 7 is going to be the way to go for most people. So I’d better be used with it. At least, it’s elegant in design, yet it can be configured to look like Windows 2000. (...) There is plenty of open-source or just freeware that runs on Windows too. And, really, Office 2007 and the upcoming 2010 are terribly advanced. OpenOffice.org is a dead end, it will never reach any standards of usability and quality.
In the costless world where they claim “freedom” matters, the only project that has a direction (even a wrong one!) is KDE4. I am still exploring it, maybe I could get used with it. The Kubuntu Karmic Alpha 5 features KDE 4.3.1 and it feels very stable at first sight (it even hibernates from the LiveCD!) (...) Unfortunately, what I see in the GNOME world just proves they go nowhere, whereas XFCE is so Win95-ish
This was not written by me but it's roughly what I think, except perhaps a few shades. About KDE4, I can NOT use it, really! About Windows, I'm always only Linux for now but in the (near?) future this can perhaps change...
But let us stop this, this is not the place.
K.I.S.S. ===> "Keep It Simple, Stupid"
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." (Albert Einstein)
but I still get that sense of accomplishment when things go right. 
