[computer-go] now: operating systems and love

[Adrian Grajdeanu]

> Linux is a time sinkhole to someone not familiar with it.    You are
> probably almost unaware of the huge investment in time you spent
> learning windows because the lessons happened gradually over many years
> and you don't give it a second thought.   You just "know it"  and forgot
> that you had to "learn it."

Funny someone should bring this up. I was a Windows guy for all but the 
last 5 years or so. I've switched to Linux, gradually at first, then one 
day when Windows pissed me, I said enough is enough! Sure I had a few 
things that stopped working (like my old trusted SCSI film scanner) but 
after a few years, even those started working in Linux. Yet what 
recently surprised me was that I was given a Windows machine and asked 
to do something that I used to have no problem: program in Visual 
Studio. I had no idea how difficult it would turn out to be. It seemed 
that nothing fits, nor was it where I would expect it to be. Like having 
2 left hands and bumbling between them. Little by little, things started 
coming back to me. In about 2 hours I started to find my way around. 
Given a few days, I'd probably remember most. What I'm trying to say is 
that if you take that gradual learning path on Linux, then Windows seems 
a time sink-hole that no-one in their right mind would want to wither 
their days with. Oh, by the way, I feel that way with Mac user 
interface. I can't find my way around there if my life depended on it!

So, while I do think Linux is the best :), I guess in the end it comes 
down to which OS you know better yourself.

A.