Wayne Parham Messages: 18787 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
I'm with you there, Bruce.
I prefer Linux, and develop C/C++ applications that run on Ubuntu (for dev and test) and RedHat linux (for production). The server that runs AudioRoundTable.com is Gentoo.
For personal use, I run Ubuntu on one of my laptops. It is stable and user-friendly. Whenever anyone visits and needs to borrow a computer, that's the one I give them. It's perfect for surfing the web or typing documents (OpenOffice is compatible with Word and Excel).
But, yeah, I still have a few boxes running Windows. All XP or Vista though. Not gonna move off those.
Slightly off-topic, but I don't see many people (certainly no companies) moving to Windows 8. It's basically a device (phone/tablet) operating system put on the desktop.