----- Original Message ----- > On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Evan Pettrey wrote: > > > I've noticed that the vast majority of sys admins who are heavily > > involved > > in the online community and the real-life community (i.e. > > professional orgs > > like LOPSA) seem to be Linux admins. Why is it that Linux admins > > tend me to > > be so much more involved do you guys think? > > I think there is also a bit of the unix world being 'here are the > tools, > build exactly what you want' and people need to ask for help (or get > blueprints or cheat sheets for doing things) where on windows the > options > tend to be much more tightly constrained, and only the vendor can help > you > do anything. >
I agree with David Lang on this. Though I think it points to something more generic. I think *nix, and even Mainframe people feel a bit of ownership over every install they do because they have options to make things the way they want. Now matter how much you paid for the object, or the rules surrounding it, if you can tweak it to your hearts content it feels more like yours. And when you have something you enjoy you tend to share that joy with others. Windows tends to be more 'this is the way you do it'. And without that emotional attachment it ends up being just a tool. And not many people get together to talk about their joys of hammers. The thought also crossed my mind that the Windows GUI gets in the way. Much like a movie vs the book. Would we have so many Harry Potter fans if there was just a series of movies about some kid, with no books attached? Granted... Star Wars kinda blows that out of the water... until midiclorians came along :) . Damion _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
