Yeah a lot of these conversations start from the assumption that all programmers are extreme power users but that's just not true. Probably the majority of the

Yeah a lot of these conversations start from the assumption that all programmers are extreme power users but that's just not true. Probably the majority of the subset of programmers who hang out on here are but out in the normal world most of us are not. I need a computer that consistently works without too much fiddling and has a terminal. My setup works fine for me and any time I spend fooling around with it I consider pretty much wasted so I try to avoid that. I've used linux plenty and it just eats up a lot of my time and energy. I leave that stuff for the servers these days.