Linked by Jack Perry on Thu 3rd Jun 2004 17:55 UTC
It's all Waterloo-Maple's fault, really: if they had maintained a version of their computer algebra system for the Amiga, I wouldn't have found it necessary to switch to Mac. Or maybe it's Commodore's fault for mismanaging themselves into oblivion; I don't know. Either way, I became painfully aware three years ago that my little Amiga would no longer satisfy my computing needs. I needed a new home computer.
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It strikes me that whenever people criticise "Linux", they have often only tried RedHat (or Fedora, sometimes Mandrake), and they usually have a problem that doesn't surface in Debian.
People, you haven't tried Linux until you try Debian! The package management Just Works, and you won't have to worry about dependencies at all. Whatever you install usually has reasonable defaults configured, and often integrates well with the rest of the system. Documentation is good (check the website), and configuration files go in the common places (i.e. not Redhat-specific ones).
BTW: people say that Debian is out of date. This is surely true of the stable branch. Try the unstable branch. It is as up to date as any good distro, and works at least as well, if not better.