In message <[log in to unmask]>, Michael Anderson 
<[log in to unmask]> writing at 14:56:42 in his/her local time 
opines:-

>I'd have to say, get rid of the Windows Problem entirely! I don't see 
>any reason to continue with Windows.
>There are so many distributions of GUN+Linux, there is bound to be one 
>for your specific needs.
>For full featured servers I recommend ClearOS (RedHat with a better 
>distribution Model).
>For general Desktop/Laptop I still recommend Ubuntu.

<snip>

Problem with your automobile? Throw it away and get a pogo stick.....

I can't answer for Joseph, but I like a computer where to backspace, you 
press backspace, and don't have to remember to use CTRL+backspace to do 
it.

And don't get me started on vi, where the up/down/left/right keys aren't 
even an intuitive set of four from the keyboard.

Or make, where lines must be indented with a tab in order to mean what 
they look like they mean, a tab that isn't visible to vi.

Or even the commands that run makefiles, and things like it, which on 
DOS (let alone Windows) would merit a .bat file of their own, just to 
ensure you had all the options correct from invocation to invocation

but on Linux, require a shell script, which might be the bash shell, or 
the korn shell. or some other shell perhaps.

And assuming you can negotiate this lot, you find you have about a 
gazillion powerful tools for developers - for which read finding files, 
and finding things in files, and altering files, and moving files, and 
changing the permissions of files so you don't have to use sudo, which 
you can't do anyway because it purposely won't inherit all the useful 
PATHs, etc., from your environment - and so on, and little or nothing 
for getting any useful application work done.

I mean, sure you can open Office files with OpenOffice, or LibreOffice, 
or 
ThisWeeksSplinterGroupVersionBecauseWeDidntLikeWhereTheOtherGuysWereGoing
WithItOffice, and they might quite look like Microsoft intended, sort 
of, partially, sometimes, maybe, if you're lucky.

But just try updating them in those products and sending the results to 
a user of the real Office. This is not always a very successful 
enterprise..... :-(

You might well call it PEBKAC that GUIs have spoiled me to the point 
where I can only just about type 10 characters without going wrong 
somewhere.

But I couldn't survive working on a Linux server without a powerful 
Windows text editor open in which I can keep my snippets of commands, to 
cut and paste them into a Windows-hosted Reflection session connected to 
that server.

So I certainly wouldn't countenance giving up my Windows installation
for some Linux distress - not even if you held a GNU to my head :-)
-- 
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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