Well by trade and by choice i’ve been a Linux user/hacker etc, since early 1996 (starting with Lasermoon FT, then quickly finding slackware, then redhat, Suse, Gentoo, Ubuntu). BUT, even today I still dont really gel with Linux on the desktop. For a server I think of nothing else…but even im willing to admit that for desktop Windows XP has been easy enough and well supported enough to be my desktop OS of choice.
But no more, I recently made the BIG mistake of buying my wife an HP laptop with Vista installed. The machine had a dual core AMD cpu, 1GB of ram….and it runs Vista like a Pig. So one 2GB upgrade later and it still runs vista like a Pig, my wife is about ready to throw the machine out of the window. So I started consider alternatives…. one “hackintosh” install later on my PC and I started to become hooked. Mac OSX is the future for me…. So now im saving for my 24″ iMac. The beauty for me is that command line my life i so much like working with Linux… for my wife its an OS that doesn’t cause her to want to damage the computer! Yes, it cost… is it perfect, no…. but damn, life is too short to continue down the path of Windows XP.
