Running Linux desktop is slightly sadistic. I've wasted days trying out the hottest distros, the latest wm, configuring drivers, etc. It's just ... not worth it. All claims of increased productivity are noise. It's not the brush you choose - it's the art you make. Just use whatever you already have and get on with it.
fargle|4 years ago
That's a far-fetched and overly broad statement. Just as the universally quantified "all users will have increased productivity" would be an invalid and overly broad statement, as you would be right to complain about.
But for my use cases, for example software development and engineering, specifically in the field of embedded, server, system, and other software that is not related to web, android, mac, windows, etc., the productivity increase is absolutely enormous - 20:1 probably. For me windows is just trash - it's impossible to properly configuration control, it changes all the time for no reason, it's horribly insecure, and needlessly difficult and inefficient to use. Command line and text rules for what I do. For me to use windows would be severely masochistic. When I'm inevitably forced to logon to windows in a corporate network, it's pure torture. To me.
To abuse your analogy, sometimes it is the brush you choose, or better yet how you choose your brush. I would not want to paint my house with a 1mm fine-tip, nor a tiny detail with a industrial paint spray rig.
So I won't tell other people what will work for them, but it is absolutely worth supporting and introducing people, who perhaps have similar use cases as you and for whom it might also be beneficial, to things like UNIX and Linux.
BenjiWiebe|4 years ago
jqpabc123|4 years ago
Not everyone has the same set of priorities. For example, it seems you decided to place more value on your time.