Comments on: The inevitable announcement of a hiatus

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:48:06 +0000

Late comment to your decision:
Welcome to the real world, Celutte! Even if I myself read your postings with interest, I feel the same about many voices on the internet. I wish that your decision works out positive.

By: celettu

celettu — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:31:49 +0000

Guillherme: thanks for all the comments

Jeff: thanks for the nice words.

Jorge: As usual, I agree with everything you say

By: jorge

jorge — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:22:10 +0000

Well, it happens to all areas of enthusiastic endeavour, be it hobbies or communities. Once you have delved in it enough time, you begin to find repetition, and diminishing returns. And you move on. Also, as you mentioned in an earlier post, linux really works now, and it is just a matter of sampling the flavours and quirks of each distro, but its not like one NEEDS to do all this work and tinkering. If one no longers WANTS to, there is no NEED to.
And really, the year of linux arrived already. I stopped evangelising about linux a long while back, yet I keep running into friends and relatives (the smarter ones at least) who casually mention they are now running linux in their machines.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:29:16 +0000

I only recently discovered your blog.
I find myself understanding how you feel more than many would in the FOSS world.
In my own experience I have for example not been able to find a GUI CD burning app for Linux that works on my laptop while the freeware for Windows XP that I used to burn the Linux CD will even work in Wine, when I can get Wine to work

Good luck in life Jeff

By: Chris Smart

Chris Smart — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:40:07 +0000

I hear ya, but you’ll be back.. Once you’ve had a taste you can’t stay away, an you’ll soon get sick of Windows

In the mean time, have you ever played with e17?

By: Guilherme de Sousa

Guilherme de Sousa — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:46:02 +0000

Sad to ear this from you San.
I’ve been reading your blog for some time, and always had a nice time following your ‘journey’ throw linux. It was a lot more focused in the experience then in the technical part of this great OS, and that is kind of rare to find in the blogosphere.

Hope to see you post as soon as possible

best regards from Portugal,

Guilherme

By: celettu

celettu — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:45:13 +0000

Mark, Kevin,

Thank you for the kind words

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:44:38 +0000

I’ll be honest; you were driving me crazy with the lack of post. I was very eager to see what you were installing/tweaking/experimenting. I’m sad to see you’re getting tired of ‘all of it’. I hope you’ll come back, but if you don’t then let me be the second to say “Thanks for sharing”

By: Mark Plunkett

Mark Plunkett — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:18:54 +0000

Sorry to see you sign off, but totally understand your reasoning. Life only has so much time in it and we need to keep moving on to those things that call us. I’ve enjoyed reading about your experiments in Linux and have tried some of the things you’ve suggested (though I’ve never had the nerve to try to install Arch — guess I’ll wait until Chakra is ready). The constant complaining about free systems is amazing and counter productive . . . I try to ignore it and find the good that I can use.

Thanks for sharing.

Mark