I've gotten to the point I don't update/reboot my os until I need to.  I 
tried to keep up with security patches, and ended up breaking my system 
every other week.  Usually because of crappy amd video drivers, but 
often far more obscure things would just sort of freak out with an 
update. My work laptop I update every 6 months it seems, but I never put 
it on a public (non-firewall/nat) network either.

This isn't exactly an ideal situation, and isn't pretty when it comes to 
linux, but the flip side is I don't have to deal with worse atrocities, 
such as windoze.

Case in point:  My roommate works for Amazon as a remote CS agent, and 
she will go days regularly with being unable to work, much for the same 
reason.  Why?  Windoze updated and broke all their custom, and 
commercial software.  Windoze 10 anniversary updates have apparently 
single-handedly broken all their apps, which forced her to buy a new pc 
just to not be fired after her weekend.  She logged in, and it told her 
they'd fix it in a week, mean time her clock is ticking to being fired.  
Thanks Amazon and Microsoft, such wonderful companies.

My vitriol toward microsoft is not exactly unfounded imho.  Having dealt 
with the guts of it for 20 years now, seeing their blatant abuse and 
ignorance toward security, I know enough to simply avoid+mock it, and 
I'll happily take my knocks in something like linux vs. paying for the 
knocks adding insult to injury.  People that do use windoze and mac 
really don't seem to suffer any less, but they do get some shiny new 
video game or free music every week to distract them from hating life.

-mb


On 08/25/2016 06:13 PM, Keith Smith wrote:
> Thank you everyone for all your feedback.
>
> At the Drupal Code Camp here in Phoenix a couple years ago all I saw 
> was Macs. Developers seem to like Macs.  Maybe it has to do with 
> having a Unix operating system that just works.
>
> I'm not disparaging Linux. It just takes a lot of knowledge to run 
> Linux as your desktop O/S.  I've done so for over 2 years and I really 
> like Linux Mint.  I'm just at a point where I want to spend less time 
> maintaining my computer and focus more on development.
>
> Again thank you for all the feedback! 
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