Ubuntu the Helpful
There are plenty of things in this world to get choked up about, but this probably isn’t one of them:
Nevertheless, I found myself battling tears when Ubuntu made this gracious offer. I still have deep regrets about the many hours of my youth I wasted trying to get Slackware to recognize my soundcard, or read a CD, or not destroy my monitor when I misconfigured the refresh rate. So now, in 2010, when a Linux distro does something more than laugh derisively and erase my hard drive when I issue a command it doesn’t know about, I think it’s perfectly natural — and totally understandable — for me to get a bit misty. 1
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That said, I’m typing this on a machine with a custom build of the standard kernel, which I installed because I want my laptop’s display to actually display things and stuff. But the sound works! ↩
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