@mrlinux
With respect to your opinion, MrLinux, you left a VERY important variable out of your post when you compared the cost of enterprise level licenses vs. running Linux. That variable is DOWNTIME! Anytime those Linux computers crash or have unpatched holes, those companies are losing money while they pay their Linux gurus who DO know how to dance the wolf dance during the third full moon while Venus dances during the equinox, etc. ad nauseum.
I LOVE to sit down at my computer and figure things out. I started with an Apple //e the moved to IBM. I toyed with Linux, but just like the author: I don't have time to learn a new dance every time a new song is released.
Computers are my passion, my hobby, and my current area of study. I enjoy troubleshooting. However, my experience with Linux has taught me that I simply lack the time, as mentioned above, to spend time digging out some arcane command line that must be done while ensuring the squeek in my desk chair squeeks in B-Flat.
In closing, I'd like to add the I'm fully comfortable working with a command-line interface. That being said, I hear over and over (from those who spent inordinate amounts of time learning those arcane commands) that it's worth it. Well, perhaps to you. To me, rather than try Linux again, I think I'd find a cavity search by a large, unattractive TSA
agent who puts his hands on my shoulders and says: "Just call me Sally" quite a bit more enjoyable. 'Nuff said.
(apologies for the innuendos. I kept the language clean, though!)
Keith
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