Your Computer is just a tool, treat it like one
There has been a lot of chatter on the Blogosphere lately about various folks dropping Vista and going back to XP. Chris Pirillo, a good friend of mine, blogged about this and then had to do a follow-up post because he was catching a lot of flack about his decision.
It’s really silly, actually. Chris went back to XP because need needed some key pieces of hardware to work and Vista wasn’t giving him the performance he wanted. Fair enough, good reason to me. Personally, I like Vista on this machine. I think it runs a little faster than XP, but who really knows since I haven’t done and apples to apples comparison for a while. Bottom line: the tool is working for me.
And that’s really the crux of it and, in fact, the point of this whole blog. We try to find tips and tricks for the apps you probably use to help you use them better and suggest new tools and tips for things you might be having issues with. If it doesn’t work for you, cool, no harm, no foul. I’m not offended if you don’t like a tool I like or if it doesn’t work for you.
Let’s take Ubuntu. I would really like to use it on this laptop. It runs fast, it runs lean, it’s tre cool, but… my wireless card doesn’t work with it. I checked the Ubuntu wiki, and yep, it doesn’t work. Support is “spotty at best”. Okay, oh well, no Ubuntu for this machine. Doesn’t mean I won’t still try it on other machines, it just means for what I need to do, it just won’t meet my needs. It’s a tool.
I come from a long line of people who work with their hands and depend on good tools to do their jobs well. My dad was a surgeon, his dad a landscaper and builder, his dad a carpenter and builder. I have tools from all of these men. In fact, I’ve used my great-grandfather’s tools and they still work great. I know from working on projects with my dad, no I didn’t assit with surgeries, that when I tool wasn’t doing the job, you tried to make do, you tried so see if it could work, but if it didn’t work, it was just abandoned.
If you take that approach to software and computers, I think you will be a lot happier. Use the tools and techniques that work for you. Don’t use the ones that don’t. And, most importantly, take care of your tools. Just like leaving your hammer out is the rain is a bad idea, so is not doing maintenance on your machine.
Catching up with videos and such … well Chris and I seem to be in brain sync … long but worth it video:
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