Other Operating Systems
Brendan Horan · Apress eBooks · 2013
I am a huge fan of trying just about any operating system I can get my hands on. At this point in time I could use anything from Plan 9 to OpenVMS as a workstation (although I don’t think I would want to). I very much like my Gentoo Linux desktop but the thing I would like you to think about is why you like your desktop operating system. You’re going to have a very hard time to justify your reasons unless you have tried another OS. I don’t just mean install it and then decide it’s all too hard and different and give up. You need to give yourself a few days or weeks to use it and work with it. Only then will you see each operating system’s strong points and weak points. Far too many people just stick with Windows or OSX. There is nothing wrong with any of the mentioned operating systems but they just don’t fit my needs. I know they don’t fit my needs because I have used them for a decent amount of time. If you take a look back, many years ago you would have found a vast range of operating systems to use, each with their strong points and each with their loyal supporters. Unfortunately just as much as available architectures have shrunk so have available operating systems. I find it a little sad that our choices are so limited nowadays.