Linked by Scot Hacker on Mon 17th Dec 2001 17:34 UTC
The story of how a BeOS refugee (and not just everyone, but the author of the 'BeOS Bible' book) lost faith in the future of computing, resigned himself to Windows but found himself bored silly, tore out half his hair at the helm of a Linux box, then rediscovered the joy of computing in MacOSX. Scot Hacker will describe his personal adventures with today's operating systems after he was set out to find an alternative to his beloved (but with no apparent future) BeOS. Update: Make sure you read the second part of the article, a rebutal, found here.
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Unfortunately despite being billed (by Scot himself AFAICT) as a personal adventure some parts of this article are obviously just researched rather than experienced, and not very well researched at that
This means that I have to wonder when reading the parts that are obviously written as a literal recounting of actual events whether in fact Scot just made all of it up, and THAT means I might as well stop reading - I can do my own research and get better results, I was along for the personal experience, the little insights that you get when YOU try something rather than reporting what otheres have said.
Scot, when you don't have anything to say about a feature because you didn't try it, or don't understand it, just don't write anything. You're not being paid to fill column inches, so it doesn't matter if the report is artificially "well rounded" by offering guesses or second hand opinion instead of experience.