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Acting on the assumption that Otheralex is willing to use this forum to collect his data, I'm happy to start things off.
Many years ago, when Win 3.1 was new and all the rage, the company I worked for decided to switch from mainframe (with nightly batch processing) to LAN's for up-to-date, live info. When you're working in manufacturing inventory planning and inventory control, the mainframe way leaves you trying to do your job with info that's as much as 24 hours out-of-date. The switch to desktop PC's peaked my curosity.
So, I enrolled in a nightschool course in DOS (since win was just a pretty shell over dos in those days). After that, I took the win course. I learned command-line from that experience.
As the years rolled by, I was curious about Unix, and saw more and more about Linux. I got curious.
I searched the web for info about Linux distros; what's available. Then I searched various forums for info about who is having problems with which distros, and which distros give the least problems. I finally settled on OpenLinux, because there were so few problems (my experience verified my web searches).
When Caldera Systems and SCO merged, and promptly did a header off the high board into an empty pool, I switched to SuSE.
Things I like best about Linux:
1-I don't have to try to reach that backslash key for command-line; the forward slash is much easier.
2-Most of what I want to tweak is in the form of a text file, easily edited.
Never had that experience in windows.
3-I have the kind of control over my system that hasn't existed in M$ products since the days of dos, if then.
Last edited by bigrigdriver; 10-19-2004 at 12:13 AM.
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