July 30, 2008

This sound familiar?

Filed under: life — jaydublu @ 8:34 am

http://xkcd.com/456/

That’s why I never made the leap to a Linux Desktop!

3 Comments »

  1. You know the funny thing - I’ve been seriously considering going back to Debian, Ubuntu is getting a bit bloated, a bit annoying, a bit too much auto-conf-y. I did, even, consider Gentoo (only briefly!).

    Randall Munroe’s insights are a bit close to the bone sometimes. :)

    On that note, I’m still trying to convince a friend of mine that SQL injection hacks would be a good middle name for his new son.

    Comment by mat — July 31, 2008 @ 12:38 pm

  2. Most *nix distros have a time and a place - I’ve had some fun with Gentoo (see Trundle) but they’re all hard work one way or another and for the moment at least the only thing that would tempt me off a Windoze Desktop environment would be OS-X (no flames please!)

    Comment by jaydublu — July 31, 2008 @ 1:18 pm

  3. No flames, but - my experience going back to OSX after Linux (rather than coming to OSX from Windows, which was what happened last time), was that it felt slow, clunky, outdated and generally a bit crap.

    On the other hand, another friend was espousing the other day the excellence of OSX, especially XCode, as a development environment. Each to their own. :)

    (I’m still waiting for an excuse to install Plan 9)

    Oh, actually - this might interest you too, a tiny, fairly rugged, very low power (4W!) pc for under 200 pounds. Fit-PC

    Comment by mat — July 31, 2008 @ 1:30 pm

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