{"id":128,"date":"2008-12-26T21:55:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T03:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2008-12-26T21:55:02","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T03:55:02","slug":"unrequited-love-linux-and-the-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/26\/unrequited-love-linux-and-the-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrequited Love: Linux and the Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Linux<\/a>
Linux Penguin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I want to love Linux but it doesn’t share my feelings. To be honest, I think it’s hurt that I’m only looking for a fling; a trophy of geekdom to casually flaunt at parties. “Yeah, I”ve got a Linux box at home.” We both know that when I’m done experimenting I’ll head back to the Mac.<\/p>\n

I think that’s the problem with Linux, even all dressed up in Ubuntu’s latest, it wants a serious commitment. Linux is a idealist and I’m looking for practicality. The little penguin even lectures me when I try to have a little fun with Flash.<\/p>\n

“You know that’s not open source. We can do it if you want but I’m not going to enjoy it.”<\/p>\n

“Lighten up a little. I’m just looking for some fun,” I reply.<\/p>\n

We’re ships passing in the night, exchanging glances, thinking what could be but ultimately knowing nothing will come of it. I can tell this spunky OS has features and the ideals it pushes are mesmerizing. Sadly, those ideals aren’t as easy to live with as they are to listen to. Sure, I want information to be free but the cool stuff, it’s not free, and Linux can’t compete.<\/p>\n

So every once in a while I’ll keep looking back over my shoulder at the little preachy penguin, wishing that it could live up to it’s own dreams; but sadly, I’ll walk away with Mac because I can live with Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I want to love Linux but it doesn’t share my feelings. To be honest, I think it’s hurt that I’m only looking for a fling; a trophy of geekdom to casually flaunt at parties. “Yeah, I”ve got a Linux box at home.” We both know that when I’m done experimenting I’ll head back to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"url":"","client":"","location":"","start_date":"","end_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[40,88,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}