After a long abstinence from the Windows platform as main OS, I have finally decided it is time to see the light and get with the masses. Windows Vista/7/2008 is the best OS out there, and neither Linux nor Mac OS X can touch it.

I have used various distro's of Linux for 2 years as primary OS, and got tired of the constant frustrations in having to pick from thousands of different choices. To not have a single company to blame for problems. To not have one single entity to hate when things go south. To have constant updates irritating the life out of me. I mean, if you have to choose between installing 10 patches in one month, or one large patch once every 3 years - which would you pick?

Then I went onwards to Mac OS X - and what a bummer. Even this guy claims Windows is better as it is cheaper than a Mac. I paid $9500 for my Mac Pro, compare that to the $2800 I paid for my super duper PC that (almost) outruns the Mac Pro. I paid $3800 for my MacBook Pro 17" Unibody, compare that with $699 for a 17" PC notebook. Steve Jobs is stealing our money. Why pay triple for some flashy junk when you can get solid compatible hardware for a third of the price?

Personal Ratings

I have created a web based e-commerce site for a client a while ago. Was quite impressed to notice today that machine I have built using Gentoo linux and JBoss for the AS has been running for more than 500 days now:

dXrTle ~ # uptime
17:45:02 up 503 days, 1:36, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00