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Sunday, December 22, 2002 |
A Linux programmer grows up
Tom K writes:
Well, I've given in. After 10 months of Linux, it's been enough. I looked back last week, and saw nothing but frustrating installing routines and tons of HOWTO's, but very little actual work done. Yes, now I know how a font is rendered on a LCD screen, but how's that going to help me in developing an intranet application? And when I wanted quickly to install Eclipse, to be more productive, I was started for 3 days of frustrating poking around. Enough is enough. I only have that many hours in a day, and I don't want to waste them anymore on things that are done in seconds on a Windows PC. I've lived 10 months of tiny frustrations and tiny victories. Victories are just easier to achieve for me on W2K. I don't want all those nice features that Linux offers you, but that are only interesting for sysadmins. What I do want, is to plug an USB mouse in my laptop and start using it. What I do want, is to be able to scroll my window by touching the sides of the touchpanel. Even more: what I do want, is a decent RSS aggregator. And Aggie is the best one I've encountered so far. I know about Mono, but I refuse to spend a week on trying to install Mono, when .NET is installed by checking a box on windowsupdate.com. [Hacking Log 2.0]
Tom desperately needs to find Don Box's classic piece on the "five stages of grief" from C++ Report to help him in his transition.
7:18:41 PM 
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