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Originally Posted by eschwartz
My own laptop is Archlinux with the old WinXP partition shoved unceremoniously into a 9GB box/partition. It comes out for Adobe Digital Editions (rare) and that's it... and once MS spins out their newly open-sourced DotNET framework as a cross-platform support library, that may not be necessary anymore. 
The school computers will not become linux though. Aafter a brief fling with Ubuntu, the volunteer sysadmin left and the office can just about handle a Windows server. And the chances of me using a VM in there are marginally better than their having a change of heart. |
I am a (sadly part-time) gamer and an amateur photographer. I need Lightroom/Photoshop 'cause I've been trained to use them, and the games. So I have Windows on my home computer. I also have a 4-years old computer set up as a Linux headless server ('cause my house is _small_ and I don't have space for 2 monitors, keyboards etc).
At work, I work for SAP, and we all have imaged pc's. And they're windows. There are a few hardcores who use Linux (in Italy, it's just one of us), but to get the installation compliant with the intranet requirements he had to dwelve into
everything of it's Suse installation and it took him months. Plus, he always has outdated versions and "procedures" 'cause they're not developed or distributed to his laptop. I cannot afford that: I gotta work.
That's one of the occasions I was talking about when I said someone is forced to use Windows.
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Cygwin is nice. But it is still a pain to manage user installs of calibre and other key apps, I hate and lack comprehension in scripting batch to do useful stuff, windows wget doesn't get trust-server-names, keybindings in cygwin are messed up by default...
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Life ain't easy.