one of the OSDN editors has a little piece on moving from desktop Linux to desktop Windows. interesting, i thought, maybe it is a piece that ventures outside the conventional wisdom of OSDN. the next 2 sentences read: I have now used Windows for an entire week. This story marks the end of that week, and I’m glad it’s over. uh-oh.
consider this gem:

First, a question: What’s up with all this “Ctrl C” and Ctrl V” copy/paste stuff? In almost all Linux programs, when I want to copy a block of text (or a graphic or whatever) I just highlight the original, then click both mouse buttons (or the middle button if I have a 3-button mouse) where I want to paste it. This is fast, easy, and takes little hand motion on my laptop keyboard. All this Ctrl key action slows me down. I don’t know about the rest of the world, but I need to work quickly if I want to earn a living, and I don’t see why Windows wants me to go through all those extra hand motions just to paste a URL into a story. Geh.

never mind that there is no global clipboard on linux that can deal with non-text content.
mr miller goes then on to complain about the security updates windows strongly suggests you install. at the same time, OSDN complains about users not applying security updates. which one is it?
“roblimo” complains about the sorry state of certain windows shareware applications. you would assume that someone using linux is well prepared to do his research and locate the best application for a job. but no, zealotry prevails, and mr miller insists on using internet explorer, only to eventually install mozilla.
it goes on like this. intellectual dishonesty, as displayed in this article, puts people on my shit list. i am sure mr miller has some interesting ideas i’d like to hear, but my crap filter will probably prevent it.
just to be clear here: i switched back to windows in 2001 after 2 years of compiling, messing with the system fun. a very nice learning experience i do not want to miss. at some point, i was getting bored with setting up the obvious stuff all over again, and thus went back to windows, where stuff just works, including my peripherals. in the meantime, i have found a nice balance between my operating system layer (strictly windows on the desktop, linux on the server) and my application stack, which is mostly open source by now.

• Mozilla
• Thunderbird
• Eclipse
• OpenOffice
• sharpreader

In addition, i run freely available software like Trillian and Acrobat Reader. I pay for only 1 program, the excellent Mindmanager.

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