Hello all, I know I haven't written here in a couple weeks. That doesn't mean that I haven't been writing, however. In class in the past two weeks, we managed to read "Oedipus Rex" along with watching an array of TED Talks. In response to those pieces, we were asked to write posts in a tragedy blog, which is supposed to be about our ideas on tragedy and how they are confirmed, challenged, or unchanged. Those of you who are a bit more perceptive probably noticed that you can find those posts under the first trimester tab in "Tragedy Blog." Through these blogs, even though I did not realize it while I wrote them, I think I have managed to come up with my own abstract concept of tragedy and how it relates to different aspects of the real world. One key thing that sold me on tragedy was the TED Talk that we watched about choices. In it, the gentleman who gave the talk suggested that we are not in full control of our choices. One example that he gave that stuck out to me was that when there is a default choice, people are usually too lazy or unable to make a decision about changing the choice. This example sold me on tragedy and this TED Talk for one reason only: I could easily see that it relates to Linux, a free and open source kernel that is usually combined with GNU to make a complete operating system that comes in many 'flavors' or distributions. This talk relates to Linux because most computers come with Microsoft Windows or macOS preinstalled. Using Linux requires the user to be active instead of passive by installing the operating system. This explains why Linux does not make up a larger portion of the desktop OS market than it does. This relates back to the point about default choices that I mentioned earlier. You can find Linus Torlvalds, the creator of Linux, talking about why Linux does not make up a larger portion of the market here. See you next week (hopefully)!
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