The Goldfish Chronicles

In terms of my personal computer, I started off using a BBC Acorn ‘B’. I migrated from there to an Amiga 500. Then I used Windows 95 and Linux on a dual boot, but really spending most of my time dabbling with different Linux distro’s before settling on SuSE and becoming quite adept at many SuSE and Linux things. In some ways I’m a hardcore expert, in others a dumbie.

A year and a bit ago I switched to OS X. It was nice. Linux++. But with a corporation leading the way and being quite untasteful. I’m no Mac expert, but I have a few tricks on the Mac now, it’s basically become the Linux laptop I never had.

A few days ago I took the eventful plunge. I would quit using Linux at work and use Windows 2K. My Windows box is nicely proportioned [640Meg memory] so surely I can do anything I normally do on the Linux box. So I removed the monitor from my Linux box and declared it my development-server, regaled at the newly found desk-space and leapt backwards into the world of Windows.

So far, my belief has proven true. I use Aston software’s Desktop to give me 16 virtual desktops. I run JProfiler, IDEA, Visio, TOAD [when it’s being stable], Outlook, Putty sessions, lots of IEs and Unreal Tournament [though I usually free a bit of memory for this. Visio/JProfilers]. Cygwin is installed, but I’ve not needed it yet. Of them all, TOAD is the only application that is a Windows-only. Visio can be nicely replaced with Omnigraffle [or I assume Dia] for my needs. IDEA/JProfiler will run on the other OSes.

So for my intents and purposes… OSes are no longer important on the desktop. They are effectively equivalent. That said, I’ll still be sticking with my SuSE linux servers. Experimentation and trust do not mix.

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