why Unix?

[Don]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> == Quote from Sergey Gromov (snake.scaly at gmail.com)'s article
>> Windows is my main development platform, and it drives me nuts.  I'd
>> move to Linux but I'm afraid of little important things getting in the
>> way, like a requirement to use Outlook for my corporate mail, and Flash
>> CS4 for development.  Even if it's possible I can't afford being
>> semi-paralyzed for at least a couple of weeks while all those nuances
>> are being sorted out.
> 
> In the rare instance where I haven't been able to find a native app to do
> some Windows thing I just use the actual Windows app running in a VM.
> But there's still a tipping point where if you find yourself using more
> non-native apps than native apps then there's just no point in using
> that OS no matter how much better it is.  I ran into this problem with
> OS/2 when one day I realized that I was mostly using it as an execution
> shell for Windows apps... it was difficult to justify using OS/2 after that,
> even though it was a million times better than Windows.

That was _exactly_ my experience too. I used OS/2 2.1 for about a year. 
I felt that it genuinely was "a better Windows than Windows", but I 
didn't have a single OS/2 app...