Biggest problem with Linux versus windows.
Is user laziness, and I find myself to be a big culprit. I find some things so much easier on Linux than windows. But I find more and more things that are easier on windows than linux, and not because linux is lacking, just that I’ve used windows for many years, and its second nature to me. I can do it much faster on Windows because I don’t even have to link about it, my mind already knows where all the points to click are. With Linux I need to think about it more and there is the time to set it up and I find myself going okay this will take 5 minutes in Windows, or 20 minutes in linux.
The Truth is, if I took the time to spend the 20 minutes on Linux the next time I tried to do it it would probably take 10 minutes, and then the next time 5. But its trying to teach my brain not to go the easy way seeem sto be the hardest thing to do.
Biggest example. I have all my subversion repostiories already linked in windows, and I’ve been using netbeans for years. It takes me 2 minutes to do an update with Tortoise SVN and go into netbeans, compile, test and deploy knew aps. I’ve done it every morning for 3 years. In linux theoretically it should be even easier since in NetBeans 6 it works as the subversion client. However I don’t have everything set up yet, so there is going to be a 30 minute setup while I link to all the subversion repostitories, assign all the libraries etc. etc. etc. Its very lazy of me I know but its so much simpler just to reboot into vista, compile deploy, then reboot back to linux.
I really need convince myself to not do that. I think might have to be something where you need to do it cold turkey, don’t dual boot, just go 100% linux and no windows. Otherwise windows will just be your crutch.
Its very hard to do but if you have the option of going back to windows you will, not because its better, but because its more familiar.