Of course, in order to achieve the same benchmark results as myself, you must be building a home network and completely giveup on ever getting Samba to work and just decide that an old ME laptop will have to be the print/file server instead.
Some of you may be like me, having a mixed network at your decorating-neglected urban manor. I can sit in the same chair, use the same monitor, and carpel-tunnelate myself on the same keyboard and mouse to use either XP or Mandrake (please feel free to flame me on this, I chose that distro was because I liked the star in their logo). Mostly, I work on the XP. The key word here being work, because I simply cannot accomplish anything on the linux box.
(Now, before you start cracking your knuckles in anticipation of crafting a response, please, read on.)
This is not to say that Angelica (the Linux box) is unstable or packed to the brim with nearly every possible application for my needs or even lacking an easy to use interface. The truth is that there is just too much tinkering possible with Linux.
How many times have you intended to play a single game of solitaire before returning to your coding only to discover that five hours later you have somehow decided that the best use of your time was to configure an apache server so that your (meaning only you, for there are no other home occupants that might find it useful) network would have an intranet?
Does it really help your productivity when a voice in the back of your mind is urging you to figure out how to change the block colors in L Breakout 2?
Granted, Angelica doesn't have all the software I need, she loads programs slower than an Apple II E preparing the cut scenes for Space Quest 2 (cursed Mandrake), and my windows machine appear on each other's network neighborhoods easier than two GameBoys linked for Mario Tennis - but ultimately it is the tinker factor that forces me to work in XP.
I'd love to write more, but I have to go fiddle with my samba config.
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Of course, in order to achieve the same benchmark results as myself, you must be building a home network and completely giveup on ever getting Samba to work and just decide that an old ME laptop will have to be the print/file server instead.
(Now, before you start cracking your knuckles in anticipation of crafting a response, please, read on.)
This is not to say that Angelica (the Linux box) is unstable or packed to the brim with nearly every possible application for my needs or even lacking an easy to use interface. The truth is that there is just too much tinkering possible with Linux.
How many times have you intended to play a single game of solitaire before returning to your coding only to discover that five hours later you have somehow decided that the best use of your time was to configure an apache server so that your (meaning only you, for there are no other home occupants that might find it useful) network would have an intranet?
Does it really help your productivity when a voice in the back of your mind is urging you to figure out how to change the block colors in L Breakout 2?
Granted, Angelica doesn't have all the software I need, she loads programs slower than an Apple II E preparing the cut scenes for Space Quest 2 (cursed Mandrake), and my windows machine appear on each other's network neighborhoods easier than two GameBoys linked for Mario Tennis - but ultimately it is the tinker factor that forces me to work in XP.
I'd love to write more, but I have to go fiddle with my samba config.