I was a Slackware and BSD user from 1994 to ~2007 (with some Libranet and CentOS in between). I knew Slackware and NetBSD inside out[1]. Why would I ever want

I was a Slackware and BSD user from 1994 to ~2007 (with some Libranet and CentOS in between). I knew Slackware and NetBSD inside out[1]. Why would I ever want to give up knowing exactly what buttons to press to make my system behave the way I want it to? For me, I just did not have the time anymore. I was fed up with getting audio to behave consistently, compiling libdvdcss after every upgrade to be able to play DVDs, the Word and PowerPoint that people sent me and came out misformatted, overhauls of desktop environments, rewritten device management infrastructure (hotplug / devd -> udev), hand-mounting of encrypted disk images because it was broken in the desktop environment again and the list goes on and on. I decided that my time was worth more than the 499 Euro for a Mac Mini (in 2007) and I never really looked back. [1] I wrote this book: http://rlworkman.net/howtos/slackbasics.pdf http://rlworkman.net/howtos/slackbasics.pdf