it's interesting to me now when I see people saying these types of things about X operating system. growing up at with a dad from DEC I actually learned how to

it's interesting to me now when I see people saying these types of things about X operating system. growing up at with a dad from DEC I actually learned how to use systems I've never used since :D but my dad ran Windows and hated macs (he worked at Xerox before DEC). so I grew up with dos and Windows for many years, then I switched to Linux when I was a teen. I hated on macs and Windows (mostly macs) then, it was a shit show to my eyes and Linux was the ultimate (even though back then with my current pov Linux was the actual shit show, things broke and had to be fixed relentlessly) I worked in more corporate type jobs for a while and used my Linux and Windows skills when needed, and then started in the OSS startup world and saw that everyone had a Mac, writing free software on a Mac, my head nearly exploded! but I was given a shiny new MacBook Pro and so I had to give it a go. I was determined to hate it but once I found tools that let me use the command line I was fine with it. it was pretty slick, minus all the crap I had to do to get it working. in the end I found they all have individual uses that the others aren't as good at and I use all 3 operating systems daily. the Windows boxes are good for some applications that just suck in wine, the Mac is good for applications that are written exclusively for macs but are very useful and I love that it turns on and is usable right when I open the lid (probably the only reason I bring it out with me when I leave my command center) technology has gotten to an amazing point, especially if you're proficient enough to use and understand it (which admittedly isn't easy to do, but worth it if you can) some of this stuff is just amazing, I run X11 on everything and I have a few very beefy servers that I use to just run my software on and display it on my main workstation. using some newer tools I am able to use the video cards on my headless machines, I can run wine server on a dedicated wine box and run rdm or xencenter and when I decide to go mobile I just switch those sessions over to my Mac and use them there. I have a IDE server that I run IntelliJ and all my other coding projects off of throug X11, it's got super redundancy and is more securely protected than my other boxes. using automation tools like Jenkins, tasker, pythonista, auto input, auto remote, and Pagerduty I can get notified of any incident and automatically have the servers connected through dbus and yakuake send output to my phone with stalled processes etc.. its all good IMO