On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 10:33 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >Benjamin Franz wrote: > ... > >'98. But it's starting to have a visible presence, thanks to Vista. > > mark "both hands on the gun, point at foot, fire!" > On the other hand, when I've attended events for developers such as a Plone > bootcamp and Python day at the University of Washington, at least 75% of > the laptops were Macbook [Pros]. > I have gone from OpenDesktop on SCO in the early '90s to Linux from 1996 or > so to OS X shortly after it came out. The vast majority of my development > is on Linux servers, but OS X Just Works(tm), and I don't have to be > constantly fiddling to get tools working. I here that occasionally; since you switched to OS X "shortly after it came out", which is like 5 years ago now, your experience with desktop LINUX is not current. It is far and away more user-friendly than it was five years ago. I'd say it has been about three years since I've had to fiddle to get tools working. Everything works. I *use* LINUX on my HP Pavilion dv7 (HP DV-3085DX) all day five to six days a week. It is production and rock-solid. In installed openSUSE 11.2 w/GNOME and *all* the hardware *just worked*. All the applications *just worked*. OpenOffice, Evolution, Nautilus, Tomboy, Banshee, Monodevelop, File-Roller, F-Spot, and Firefox is a killer suite of top-notch applications. -- Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>