Applications are the reason. I dumped both over Microsoft with much great intellectual pain. Linux-land began to remind me of the early days of Commodore64. I began to want things to work right the first time. Linux was completely stable and functional but the desktop apps were usually broken and worked with more invested time than I wanted to spend. I want to create real work with a machine not just play with it. M$ and it's "what will this cost me today" is less stable, less user twistable and it like living in conformist land (BTW one size does not fit all) but its apps usually work. Some people use computers to create things other than device drivers. I miss my XWindows but... everyone else can now read my mail and work.
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Applications are the reason.
Applications are the reason. I dumped both over Microsoft with much great intellectual pain. Linux-land began to remind me of the early days of Commodore64. I began to want things to work right the first time. Linux was completely stable and functional but the desktop apps were usually broken and worked with more invested time than I wanted to spend. I want to create real work with a machine not just play with it. M$ and it's "what will this cost me today" is less stable, less user twistable and it like living in conformist land (BTW one size does not fit all) but its apps usually work. Some people use computers to create things other than device drivers. I miss my XWindows but ... everyone else can now read my mail and work.