[Discuss] Why use Linux?

[Richard Pieri]

markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> Tread lightly, being "absolutist" means you will convince no one and are
> merely singing to the choir. If you are fair and balance the facts, give
> credit where credit is due, open minded people will hear you.

Yep. I mean, I have two very up-front reasons not to use Linux. The 
first is the state of desktop environments. For all of the choices 
available there are none that are as usable and as polished as 
Macintosh, and few that are substantially better than Windows 7. The 
second is the mechanisms the Linux kernel uses to dynamically enumerate 
devices at boot time are stupid. I don't care if that's how Linus wants 
it; they're stupid. They cause too many problems and have spawned too 
many incompatible and non-portable workarounds.

-- 
Rich P.