{"id":89,"date":"2009-09-03T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogengine\/blog3\/post\/Because-its-there-may-not-be-a-good-reason"},"modified":"2020-08-15T14:59:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T22:59:52","slug":"because-its-there-may-not-be-a-good-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/2009\/09\/03\/because-its-there-may-not-be-a-good-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Because it&#8217;s there&#8221; may not be a good reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI&#39;m seriously thinking about going back to Windows XP on my little laptop here. For two reasons:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n1. Ubuntu 9.04 \/ Gnome appears to run sluggishly. Is it the EXT4 file system? Is it some optimization I haven&#39;t discovered? I have no idea. Since part of the reason of giving Linux a go was to experience a lean, mean OS with no cruft, it seems just wrong to me.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n2. I&#39;m not really having much fun. I thought it would be fun to dabble and learn and maybe even get MonoDevelop and ASP.NET working. Well it&#39;s not fun at all. It&#39;s tedious. There is much that I don&#39;t understand and what little time I have left over for this kind of activity is spent trying to find exactly the right blog post that explains something.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI want my comfort zone back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m seriously thinking about going back to Windows XP on my little laptop here. For two reasons: 1. Ubuntu 9.04 \/ Gnome appears to run sluggishly. Is it the EXT4 file system? Is it some optimization I haven&#39;t discovered? I have no idea. Since part of the reason of giving Linux a go was to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}