Sean Kelly wrote:
== Quote from Sergey Gromov ([email protected])'s article
Windows is my main development platform, and it drives me nuts. I'd
move to Linux but I'm afraid of little important things getting in the
way, like a requirement to use Outlook for my corporate mail, and Flash
CS4 for development. Even if it's possible I can't afford being
semi-paralyzed for at least a couple of weeks while all those nuances
are being sorted out.
In the rare instance where I haven't been able to find a native app to do
some Windows thing I just use the actual Windows app running in a VM.
But there's still a tipping point where if you find yourself using more
non-native apps than native apps then there's just no point in using
that OS no matter how much better it is. I ran into this problem with
OS/2 when one day I realized that I was mostly using it as an execution
shell for Windows apps... it was difficult to justify using OS/2 after that,
even though it was a million times better than Windows.
That was _exactly_ my experience too. I used OS/2 2.1 for about a year.
I felt that it genuinely was "a better Windows than Windows", but I
didn't have a single OS/2 app...
