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It's not fucking a money printer driving around doing the things. And this is now we're, whatever, eight years later. Very hard to predict when these things tip, but...

It's not fucking a money printer driving around doing the things. And this is now we're, whatever, eight years later. Very hard to predict when these things tip, but...

It is a new thing for me to run Linux full-time on the desktop in anger as my primary operating system. And it came about also out of some anger. The final straw, the motivating sort of light to the fire here was Apple. And I've been... I was going to say a happy Apple fan. I think that's fair to say, actually, for 20 years, about 20 years, a little more than 20 years.

It is a new thing for me to run Linux full-time on the desktop in anger as my primary operating system. And it came about also out of some anger. The final straw, the motivating sort of light to the fire here was Apple. And I've been... I was going to say a happy Apple fan. I think that's fair to say, actually, for 20 years, about 20 years, a little more than 20 years.

Not only was I a happy Apple fan, I was an Apple evangelist. And that came about in part by very much a replay of what's just happened. In the mid to late 90s, I was a very reluctant Windows user. I was actually kind of a pissed off Windows user because I was using Windows because it felt like that was the only option, but I didn't like it.

Not only was I a happy Apple fan, I was an Apple evangelist. And that came about in part by very much a replay of what's just happened. In the mid to late 90s, I was a very reluctant Windows user. I was actually kind of a pissed off Windows user because I was using Windows because it felt like that was the only option, but I didn't like it.

I didn't like anything about what Microsoft stood for in those days. I didn't like the leadership of Microsoft. I didn't like the... choke off their air supply, business tactics that they were applying to Netscape and the other competitors they had at the time.

I didn't like anything about what Microsoft stood for in those days. I didn't like the leadership of Microsoft. I didn't like the... choke off their air supply, business tactics that they were applying to Netscape and the other competitors they had at the time.

I didn't like the overly smug, I want to punch you in the face look of Bill Gates when he was sitting for the deposition at the antitrust cases. I just, I didn't like any of it. And I thought like, I'm begrudgingly using this operating system because I simply feel like there is not a realistic choice. And Maybe there will be a bunch of Linux people. Well, Linux was already great in 95.

I didn't like the overly smug, I want to punch you in the face look of Bill Gates when he was sitting for the deposition at the antitrust cases. I just, I didn't like any of it. And I thought like, I'm begrudgingly using this operating system because I simply feel like there is not a realistic choice. And Maybe there will be a bunch of Linux people. Well, Linux was already great in 95.

Yeah, it wasn't for me. I had friends using Linux back then, and what I saw didn't win me over. Let's just put it like that. And then 2001, I believe it is, rolls around. Apple rolls out the new Mac OS 5. OS 10, I think it was, what was it, Puma 10.1 or 2 or 3, I forget. Whichever version was out in 2001 was the one I hopped on.

Yeah, it wasn't for me. I had friends using Linux back then, and what I saw didn't win me over. Let's just put it like that. And then 2001, I believe it is, rolls around. Apple rolls out the new Mac OS 5. OS 10, I think it was, what was it, Puma 10.1 or 2 or 3, I forget. Whichever version was out in 2001 was the one I hopped on.

And I hopped on to that because for the first time it felt like there was a credible alternative to Windows that I could use as the web developer and as a general computer user without being like this super nerd that was going to figure out Linux on the desktop. And I thought, you know what, isn't this the best of both worlds? I get to use like a BSD-based operating system.

And I hopped on to that because for the first time it felt like there was a credible alternative to Windows that I could use as the web developer and as a general computer user without being like this super nerd that was going to figure out Linux on the desktop. And I thought, you know what, isn't this the best of both worlds? I get to use like a BSD-based operating system.

That's kind of like Linux. It's the same ethos underneath the technical underpinnings. This is why I don't have to install an antivirus system within the first five seconds of booting the computer, short of it getting taken over by some botnet. So there were all these advantages to it. There were all these advantages when working on open source software.

That's kind of like Linux. It's the same ethos underneath the technical underpinnings. This is why I don't have to install an antivirus system within the first five seconds of booting the computer, short of it getting taken over by some botnet. So there were all these advantages to it. There were all these advantages when working on open source software.

I was already working with Apache and MySQL and... picking up Ruby a few years later, PHP, all that stuff was just better on a Unix-based setup. Now, there were about a million trade-offs nonetheless. That original version of macOS I ran, ran on an 800 megahertz power PC with 256 megabytes of RAM, and it sucked in terms of performance.

I was already working with Apache and MySQL and... picking up Ruby a few years later, PHP, all that stuff was just better on a Unix-based setup. Now, there were about a million trade-offs nonetheless. That original version of macOS I ran, ran on an 800 megahertz power PC with 256 megabytes of RAM, and it sucked in terms of performance.

It was so much slower than what Intel and Windows were able to put out. And I still didn't care. I was like, I'm just happy to have some alternative here that gets me out of Gates land. And I pushed on that for the next 20 years. And. didn't really realize that I was getting slowly boiled.

It was so much slower than what Intel and Windows were able to put out. And I still didn't care. I was like, I'm just happy to have some alternative here that gets me out of Gates land. And I pushed on that for the next 20 years. And. didn't really realize that I was getting slowly boiled.