It's against my better judgement to engage in anything so close to a debate over platforms and their relative merits, but I would like to respond to this: Unix is not a serious platform for anyone who wants to actually get work done
Your argument is flawed. At best, you could argue that Unix is not a serious platform for *you* to get work done on, or that you've seen others struggle with said platform. One person's effective tool may be useless to another person. I know A person who literally does everything in emacs; while I find this to be a mind boggling choice, it's what works for him and it certainly *does work*. More, it's been a viable and consistent tool for twenty years.
I, too, find Linux to be more suitable for deployment as servers or appliance-like applications rather than as a useful desktop platform, but I also acknowledge that I lack familiarity- I'm aware that many problems I've had using it are the result of a steep learning curve for some versions, and of a difference in paradigm. At the same time, I'm amazed that you've never seen someone kill hours rebuilding a Windows box that's blown up; they can, and do, and often through no obvious mistake on the part of the user. I've seen good practices, in fact - regular installation of software updates - cause a machine to stop functioning completely.
All software has flaws, I'd suggest that you're simply used to the flaws in Windows.
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Date: 2007-10-14 02:44 am (UTC)Your argument is flawed. At best, you could argue that Unix is not a serious platform for *you* to get work done on, or that you've seen others struggle with said platform. One person's effective tool may be useless to another person. I know A person who literally does everything in emacs; while I find this to be a mind boggling choice, it's what works for him and it certainly *does work*. More, it's been a viable and consistent tool for twenty years.
I, too, find Linux to be more suitable for deployment as servers or appliance-like applications rather than as a useful desktop platform, but I also acknowledge that I lack familiarity- I'm aware that many problems I've had using it are the result of a steep learning curve for some versions, and of a difference in paradigm. At the same time, I'm amazed that you've never seen someone kill hours rebuilding a Windows box that's blown up; they can, and do, and often through no obvious mistake on the part of the user. I've seen good practices, in fact - regular installation of software updates - cause a machine to stop functioning completely.
All software has flaws, I'd suggest that you're simply used to the flaws in Windows.