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I ran linux on the desktop for close to a decade, and I honestly regret that. The hours I spent futzing with x-windows, apmd, the broken pcmcia support, etc wer

I ran linux on the desktop for close to a decade, and I honestly regret that. The hours I spent futzing with x-windows, apmd, the broken pcmcia support, etc were unproductive periods of my life that I can not get back. It formed a ridiculous "us versus them" mentality that took years to fully get out of my system. I still remember the day seven years ago that my laptop failed while at a customer site. I jumped onto an imac, the first time I had ever touched an apple product. The next day I went out and bought a macbook pro, and haven't wasted time trying to shoehorn a server OS onto a desktop ever since.

scotty79 17y ago
I ran linux on desktop for close to a decade. Things I've learned from it are invaluable to me. I came from windows where I learned all that user can learn about it, which was not much. I switched to linux for anything else than gaming and Visual Studio jobs and lived (more or less) happily ever after. When I first touched mac two years ago I was angry about the UI that was completely counterintuitive for me. When I found console things brightened up. I thought "Hey! It's linux inside, only packaged as annoying toy." I could even set up nat when I needed it. It was only a bit more complicated than in linux. I haven't found any killer apps. When it died on me recently I wasn't really shaken. I just felt bitter about the money. Few things to outline my perspective. I'm a programmer, I don't like paying for hardware more than its worth. I don't like paying for software.
- sielskr 17y ago
  Few things to outline my perspective. . . . . I don't like paying for hardware more than its worth. I don't like paying for software. These are important aspects of the demographic that uses Linux on the desktop and laptop. It and the ideological zealots are why there's no commercial software for the Linux laptop or desktop.
  - scotty79 17y ago
    The drift from desktop software to software as service (usually free up to some capacity) is a good thing for linux because it fills some gaps in availability of some useful software on linux. Personally I had far worse experiences with commercial software than with free software so I am not especially eager to see commercial software on linux. I think on linux commercial software has hard time competing with the software developed open source way.

scotty79 17y ago

I ran linux on desktop for close to a decade. Things I've learned from it are invaluable to me. I came from windows where I learned all that user can learn about it, which was not much. I switched to linux for anything else than gaming and Visual Studio jobs and lived (more or less) happily ever after. When I first touched mac two years ago I was angry about the UI that was completely counterintuitive for me. When I found console things brightened up. I thought "Hey! It's linux inside, only packaged as annoying toy." I could even set up nat when I needed it. It was only a bit more complicated than in linux. I haven't found any killer apps. When it died on me recently I wasn't really shaken. I just felt bitter about the money. Few things to outline my perspective. I'm a programmer, I don't like paying for hardware more than its worth. I don't like paying for software.

sielskr 17y ago
Few things to outline my perspective. . . . . I don't like paying for hardware more than its worth. I don't like paying for software. These are important aspects of the demographic that uses Linux on the desktop and laptop. It and the ideological zealots are why there's no commercial software for the Linux laptop or desktop.
- scotty79 17y ago
  The drift from desktop software to software as service (usually free up to some capacity) is a good thing for linux because it fills some gaps in availability of some useful software on linux. Personally I had far worse experiences with commercial software than with free software so I am not especially eager to see commercial software on linux. I think on linux commercial software has hard time competing with the software developed open source way.