On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:59:24AM +0000, Richard Watson wrote: > On Friday 30 November 2001 10:32, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 03:39:20AM -0500, Alec wrote: > > > I'm wondering what everyone's motivation is for using Linux on a laptop > > > instead of Cygwin + Windows. > > > > Because Windows doesn't have any of the utilities I need. I use vi, C, > > php, postgres, apache, make, bash, X, latex, mpg123 (etc. etc. etc.) for my > > day to day work and none of them are available on Windows. > > Most (if not all) of those are available on windows and have been for some > time. That's the beauty of open source - if it's not available on your > platform you can just recompile it.
Sure. But, those software are ingegral to many linux distributions, while third party add ons for windows. I will have to take all the pain compiling and/or downloading, keeping track of libraries and so on... > The real question should be "Why use Windows on a Laptop" and generally the > answer is "Because it was there when I bought it". But the original posting was rather "Why use Linux on a Laptop"? I answered _that_ question from _my_ perspective. Cheers, Anuradha -- Debian GNU/Linux (kernel 2.4.16) There's no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
