Linux? Huh? I'm keeping my copy of Win98 around, just in case. Linux is great in theory (the theory that trying hard == winning) but terrible in practice. Windows does not come with a compiler, and Linux does. So Linux is better? ...no. It just means that you have to compile everything before you can use it in Linux. I tried to install the latest NVidia drivers for Linux in January, on an absolutely mainstream Dell system... and had to hack the driver files to get them to work. Or rather, my research advisor did, and I had no idea what he was doing. And this was Red Hat Enterprise 8.1, not some random distro.
I'm glad that Linux is around for the same reason I'm glad Canada is around. Maybe someday it will be useful, but until then, it's a great place to hide during a global thermonuclear war.
(just kidding, R13, I always go to Canada to buy blank optical media at a steep discount
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