[TriLUG] I Feel Dirty (a confession)

[Ken Mink]

I've been using Linux as my desktop OS at work and at home pretty much
full time since I first loaded Slackware from a huge stack of floppies
in '95. Since I've worked as a *NIX sysadmin and then a *NIX developer,
having a UNIXy desktop was wonderful.

For last 2 1/2 years I've been using my personal laptop as my main
machine at work and then as my secondary machine at home. It started out
as RH7.3 and is now running FC1. It was time to replace this workhorse
and tomorrow it's replacement arrives; a shiny new Powerbook. Normally
the arrival of a new toy of this magnitude fills me with the same
anticipation that I felt on Christmas Eve as a child. This time it's
different. I feel like I'm cheating on my wife or I've given up on an
old friend. I just feel dirty.

I do not plan on loading Yellowdog or any other of the Mac Linux
distros. As I said, this is my main machine for work. As much as I enjoy
the challenge that Linux sometimes poses, I can't afford the downtime at
work. While Linux makes a great desktop OS, my experience has been that
it's not so hot on laptops(ACPI anyone). I know it will get there. For
now, my productivity requires me to go elsewhere.

I'm still running 3 Linux machines at home and a dozen or so at work,
but tomorrow will be a sad day for me just the same. It will be the end
of an era.

Ken
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin
" 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it
is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."--William Pitt