I can tell right away that you are not using a "real" windows :)

I'm using windows 2000 both at home and at work, and that is by far the most productive environment for me, although I use *NIX quite a lot. I have Red Hat 7.2 as second computer both at work and at home, so I tend to switch a lot.

Linux almost never crashes on me, of course, but it is still beaten by win2k, that has, that I can recall, never actually crashed on me in the last 2-3 years (on lots of different computers). So I assume you have 98 or Me or something?

What I want to say with this is that if you can (and think it is worth it) get a copy of what I deem a real Windows, that might be good enough for you. Win2k has path completion (possible to put on tab like you are used to), and most all of the features one wants (cygwin adds the last few) - only faster. Yes, I mean it. Windows 2000 is lots faster than Gnome or KDE on the same computer, no matter what the application (I guess it is due to X being old, bloated and going via TCP/IP even locally or what it was...). And I don't really use the point and click interface in the way you seem to mean, just like I don't do point and click on linux, even though it is there. I use a few tools, like TextPad, Windows Commander and the command line, and that is about it. :)

That said, if one is more comfortable with a *NIX machine, then by all means go for it - it is still pure joy to work at those too.

What works best for me is to do stuff, mainly programming and surfing for facts etc, on the windows machine, then use/run the stuff on the *NIX machine or both. Never had any luck with dual booting, the machine always seems to be stuck in one of the modes anyways, but it might be a good-enough solution for the time being. :)

As for what distribution... well, I'm quite happy with Red Hat as such, but RPM blows goats. So next reinstall I'm thinking to try Debian to get apt-get-install and friends. :)

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In reply to Re: Perl hacker’s tools of trade or hardware of choice.. by Dog and Pony
in thread Perl hacker’s tools of trade or hardware of choice.. by vladb

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