Pointer: blog post, "RANT: Is the Linux dream a myth?"

[blnchflr]

I came across this blog post in the openSUSE forums: RANT: Is the Linux dream a myth?

I've met a few characters that are living the Linux dream or at least claiming to. But here's the rub... is there anyone who's exclusively using it? I don't mean "I've got Linux installed on my USB stick" or "I dual boot". Is there anyone who is actually using Linux as there sole operating system. Booting into everyday to check their email, write their documents, develop their code, surf the web and yes.. play their games. I fear there is not.

Having used Linux exclusively for almost a year, and knowing people who've been Linux-exclusive for longer than that, not to mention MAC USERS, the author seems naive or sheltered. Which surprises me, as he's a coder - apparently I'm prejudiced about coders :o)

Comments

[blnchflr]

I wouldn't mind having easy access to testing webpages in IE, because I do want my websites to be accessible to all browsers. I write xhtml 1.0 strict, and validate - but that isn't always enough to make sure IE doesn't do cooky things to it. However, I couldn't live with Vista taking up 29GB of my hd, when I wasn't using it for anything else.

since I'm on Linux, "basic text editor" equals gedit, which means I still get the code highlighting that's part of the reason a real code editor isn't supposed to be used yet.
:oD

[dragonwolf]

However, I couldn't live with Vista taking up 29GB of my hd, when I wasn't using it for anything else.

I know how that goes. I actually have XP running in my VMs, in part because I've ended up with a zillion copies of it over the years (I got free software packs and downloads courtesy of my school, and rationalized by the fact that it's in my tuition anyway). Granted, I gave it 40Gigs of space, but that's because it's also doubling as my development environment for .NET apps when I need them (and thanks to Sun's little feature in their disk creation/allocation system, it doesn't actually take up that much space until it's actually using that much space, so the drive file is only about a quarter of that size). Of course, I also have an entire TB drive dedicated to holding data, so even 40GB is pretty trivial.