Monthly Archives: August 2009

I’m just going to start this off by saying I’m an OS agnostic.  While I believe there may be a perfect operating system, I doubt it will ever see the light of day because humans aren’t perfect and can’t write perfect code.  I use operating systems as needed and take each one with its draws and its flaws. At work, it’s XP, HP-UX and the Linux flavor of the month (which by the way is migrating from Gentoo to Ubuntu). At home its Windows 7RC, Vista and Ubuntu. You may have noticed that I haven’t mentioned OS X, but that’s simply because I don’t own a Mac nor do we use them at work. Note: I’ve been toying with buying a Mini or a Macbook for a while but having just bought a house I have more pressing things to spend money on. I don’t have any problems with any of the big 3 operating systems (other than availability of cross platform programs and support but that’s a different nut entirely), but I do have problems with fanboys and cultists. These people are so blinded with belief that their OS is perfect that they ignore any flaw and place blame entirely on the competitors.  Don’t proselytize your OS, because chances are you’ll just confuse whomever it is and cause even more problems down the road. A good example of this single mindedness can be seen in an article I came across on Digg by Jack Wallen from back in February entitled “10 Reasons why Linux will triumph over Windows”.  Stop now and read his article.  Don’t skim through it. Give it a good read, contemplate it and then come back. Don’t worry, I’ll wait.