de tomKronieken

Well, I've given in. After 10 months of Linux, it's been enough. I looked back last week, and saw nothing but frustrating installing routines and tons of HOWTO's, but very little actual work done. Yes, now I know how a font is rendered on a LCD screen, but how's that going to help me in developing an intranet application? And when I wanted quickly to install Eclipse, to be more productive, I was started for 3 days of frustrating poking around. Enough is enough. I only have that many hours in a day, and I don't want to waste them anymore on things that are done in seconds on a Windows PC. I've lived 10 months of tiny frustrations and tiny victories. Victories are just easier to achieve for me on W2K. I don't want all those nice features that Linux offers you, but that are only interesting for sysadmins. What I do want, is to plug an USB mouse in my laptop and start using it. What I do want, is to be able to scroll my window by touching the sides of the touchpanel. Even more: what I do want, is a decent RSS aggregator. And Aggie is the best one I've encountered so far. I know about Mono, but I refuse to spend a week on trying to install Mono, when .NET is installed by checking a box on windowsupdate.com.

Don't get me wrong: I still believe OSS has a feature. But as things are today, you have to master the underlying technologies in order to use it. I'm still madly in love with Cocoon, but I do know how to run ant, and where to find a jar. I know jack shit about C/C++ development, and I don't even get how you're supposed to install gcc. To let alone the version hell of glibc and collagues.

Maybe I'll turn back in a week or so, when I've encountered the zillionth blue screen of death, but believe me, the zillionth "glibc not installed correctly" gets on your nerves also. And makes you feel like a complete idiot, a feeling that I don't like at all. See you all next time, I'm going to windowsupdate.com now...