Re:I'm cheap... but also philosophical (Score 1)

That's how I got started with *nix. I didn't have the money to pay for MSWindows. But the longer I've used *nix the more I've come to love it. Its really the philosophy that attracts me to *nix. This idea that most, if not all, complicated tasks can be accomplished with several small versatile programs. I have really enjoyed the process of learning how to use these applications and I really like that there is continuity between generations of *nix users. I have learned find and awk tricks from previous generations and I look forward to teaching these skills to later generations. The biggest reason I don't use MSWindows is that sense of satisfaction that comes from solving a fairly complicated problem with the tools at hand in an innovative way and the idea that these tricks can be passed on in the form of scripts.