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Whatever you don't pay for in money, you pay for in your time. I was pointed to this phenomenon by the book Suburban Nation thirty years ago, and it continues
by MarkLowenstein 3y ago
Whatever you don't pay for in money, you pay for in your time.
I was pointed to this phenomenon by the book Suburban Nation thirty years ago, and it continues to explain so much.
- freediver 3y agoMore recently (last 20 years) with your data and attention too.
- Gud 3y agoI've heard this expression many times before, still doesn't make any sense to me. I vastly prefer my setup based around FreeBSD I've used for the last 20+ years, than the corporate hell that is Windows. Not much has changed over the years - I still use rc.conf and pf.conf to configure my system. Things are still where I expect them to be. XFCE is still the same, thunderbird hasn't changed much. Vim is exactly how it was. And the initial learning curve wasn't even that steep. Meanwhile, Windows is just getting worse and worse and worse for each year. So in that case, I am paying both with my time wasted and with money(though someone elses).
- MarkLowenstein 3y agoInteresting contrast. No question that Windows wastes a lot of one's time. Probably most people guess that Linux will waste more of their time, because they may not be able to learn easily enough what you've learned about how to configure it and keep it running smoothly. They may suspect that even if they put in a little time, they will nonetheless make fatal mistakes or be left with a system they must replace with Windows after all. So their perception or misperception of the time cost they will pay causes them to choose Windows, and maybe a lot of them are wrong in the long term.