Re^3: OT: Switching Sides

And even if there are drivers which claim to support your hardware, the amount of time it takes to persuade them to drive your hardware, not leave your serial or USB ports horked, and continue working after your laptop wakes from slumber (if you can get it to go to sleep and wake up again in the first place!) - well, all those wasted hours are worth enough money for you to have just gone and bought a Mac. On which you can then use perl to your heart's content.

I've wasted too much time on Linux, sound, video, power management, USB, PCMCIA and other arcana in the past. Linux is *not* ready for portable use, and only barely suitable for wizards' desktops.

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Re^4: OT: Switching Sides (still OT) by Coruscate (Sexton) on Dec 01, 2003 at 18:10 UTC
Yep, that's linux for you. I still say it is wonderful though. It is quite the dream machine for development and production though. It provides an unimagineable number of resources and tools for programmers. The only problem I ever really have with linux is hardware-based (or the time I removed a couple of important system dependencies oops). So all in all, linux is good for me. Just not with a printer :)	[reply]

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by Coruscate (Sexton) on Dec 01, 2003 at 18:10 UTC

Yep, that's linux for you. I still say it is wonderful though. It is quite the dream machine for development and production though. It provides an unimagineable number of resources and tools for programmers. The only problem I ever really have with linux is hardware-based (or the time I removed a couple of important system dependencies oops). So all in all, linux is good for me. Just not with a printer :)

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