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Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:47:47 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9
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> Every time I have to use something like
> Linux or MS, I feel overwhelmed by the sheer complexity of it all.

Possibly OT, my main beef with Linux and Windows is that they keep
wanting to update themselves and the effort to "manage" these updates
is enormous (less so with Ubuntu, but still great).  With Plan 9, I
find I can control the updating process and do not feel I'm leaving
myself exposed whenever I do.  Of course, the factors involved are
very different, but I have a suspicion that with Windows and Linux one
relinquishes control at too deep a level and the continual updates are
a particularly visible case of this loss of control.

++L