Linux is AWESOME!!!

That was in reference to end users -- obviously. I would recommend Ubuntu for grandma. My arguments for not using Linux were quite clear. There's a lack of driver support, lack of software support, and a lack of PC gaming support.

This is going to be heartbreaking, I'm going to say it anyway, most software for Linux is really unpolished -- granted, it's free and independently made.

WINE is far from perfect, and running virtual machines for resource intensive software is just stupid. I will admit Maya runs natively in Linux, and that's pretty cool, now Adobe, Discreet, and every game developer... Linux has come very far, I mean very far. It can literally be installed easier than Windows at this point.

In the future, the speed of computers will nullify the lack of performance in virtual machines, making this entire argument meaningless. At that point, it just won't matter. What will come first, support or processing power? Maybe they'll both come at the same time.

It doesn't come down to difficulty, if comes down to reality. If you want to sit on your toilet seat to get everything working just the way you want it, great. Most people don't want to live that way. If you're an awesome programmer, great. You can, for free, sit on your toilet seat and program your own drivers, and absolutely go nowhere.

Your post is out of anger, and it shows for the lack of ignoring details, like the fact I wrote that it was good for servers. Your post ignores that all together, because you point out "what do you think 90% of web hosting occurs on (along with FreeBSD)?"

See how much easier that would have been to start with, rather than the "I'm awesome, admit it" posts? This last post shows an inherent understanding of the arguments you put forth and gives us a good ground for logical discussion. I had given up because your previous posts were light on info, high on ego, and we've all seen plenty of that elsewhere on the web. I look forward to debating you a little further now - but I currently have to root out some bizzaro problem happening with a friend's hosting platform...so I will return when once again I can procrastinate for a few minutes lol..

Everyone is more awesome when they're sippin' down the poison. It's insta-ego. I can't change that. I become like the world's top chef in the kitchen, and I really don't have much experience -- but I watch a lot of cooking shows. I don't mean computers; I mean literally in the kitchen.

All awesome until you have to recompile your own binaries and configure your firewall blah blah blah.

Just get a Mac and have the best of both worlds (things just work and you still get a unix command line).

Hey, I know its april fools and all, but don't get carried away.
1600 bucks for a very basic 13" laptop, 800 bucks for a stripped down tablet that won't do flash..
Hilarious.
OH, and a special provision to use windows, so people will buy it.

You get what you pay for. Been there, done that with Linux.

In the long run, a Mac is the only way to go.

So am I. It's based on BSD, actually, one of the more secure distros of unix. Do some research to counteract your blind, ignorant zeal.

So am I. It's based on BSD, actually, one of the more secure distros of unix. Do some research to counteract your blind, ignorant zeal.

I have a 2.1 macbook that the OS cannot be upgraded to OS Lion.
With one gig of memory, what Linus flavor would you recommend that I try on the Macbook?
I am not going to by a new laptop, even though this one is 6 years old, it is still a solid laptop

Which one(s) would you suggest?

doesn't matter a lot. one gig of ram should be plenty. just make sure your desktop environment (the graphical user interface, with all bells and whistles) doesn't eat up most of that memory. if you want to save ram, use a lightweight desktop environment (like xfce), or use only a bareboned window manager (like fluxbox)...

Lol ya frickin nerd nazi, no. BSD is a unix distribution, or, to use another term so as to not confuse you further, a derivative. It is actually even called a distribution. In the goddamned title:
"Berkeley Software Distribution"
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Now who is the clueless zealot? Dumbass.