For me the lack of management (malware, registry, NTFS) was a big boon back in 2005. The magical UNIX terminal where you could get new functionality by piping pieces together into your own customized tool was hard to start with, but grew on me in a couple of months. That was the point when I couldn't really go back -- Windows didn't run my favourite software -- the bash shell coupled with transparent mount-points for FIFO and tools like SSH, VIM and Python. Yeah, I know Python runs on Windows. It makes little ice-weasels cry, though.
And later on, my Wacom + Painter/Photoshop (I really hate Photoshop, I do) doodling hobby required too much effort to support with Linux. As of late this has gotten better, including Linux apps for painting, but by then I was gone.
Then I sort of bought into some of the software specific to the platform, such as Panic's Coda, the iTunes on the Mac, and now I'm stuck here. I could move onto a Linux machine for the web-development, even now I can.
But I don't want to. It's very cozy in here. "Everything just works" -- there's some emotional truth in that.
For me the lack of management (malware, registry, NTFS) was a big boon back in 2005. The magical UNIX terminal where you could get new functionality by piping pieces together into your own customized tool was hard to start with, but grew on me in a couple of months. That was the point when I couldn't really go back -- Windows didn't run my favourite software -- the bash shell coupled with transparent mount-points for FIFO and tools like SSH, VIM and Python. Yeah, I know Python runs on Windows. It makes little ice-weasels cry, though.
And later on, my Wacom + Painter/Photoshop (I really hate Photoshop, I do) doodling hobby required too much effort to support with Linux. As of late this has gotten better, including Linux apps for painting, but by then I was gone.
Then I sort of bought into some of the software specific to the platform, such as Panic's Coda, the iTunes on the Mac, and now I'm stuck here. I could move onto a Linux machine for the web-development, even now I can.
But I don't want to. It's very cozy in here. "Everything just works" -- there's some emotional truth in that.