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Originally Posted by MrPLD
I agree. For me, moving to a Windows situation would decimate my productivity (especially for my electronics design). Given that I don't have to collaborate with anyone else oh a daily basis and when I do have to I can share in open/standard formats, the path of picking up Open-source packages works well for me. That said there are situations where I do use commercial software on Linux despite their being open-source alternatives (such as using 'Eagle PCB' rather than 'kicad' or 'gEDA').
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There are cases where that's the appropriate response. Another example would be people doing serious image manipulation. The Gimp is fine software, but it's not Photoshop, and if you do digital image manipulation for a living, Photoshop is what you use. There simply isn't anything else that really approaches it, open source or commercial.
Open source is splendid, but it isn't always the best tool for a particular job.
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I guess what I was saying originally is that there are several viable options for those of us who have the liberty of being able to do so (eg, not constricted due to industry defacto).
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There certainly are. But once you settle on a particular solution, it can be really hard to change course.
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.... I see we've drifted waaaaaay off topic now.
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It's inherent in the nature of the forums. Not to worry. Some of the best threads result from just such drift. I think of them as Little Bo Peep's sheep: "Leave them alone, and they'll come home, wagging their tails behind them." If they don't, I can play shepherd, but I seldom have to.
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Dennis