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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I'm waiting for Linux to suck less. I have two machines that triple boot Win98, BeOS 5, and Debian unstable. I spend the majority of my time in Debian, aand to be fair most of it is spent doing things that would never even surface in BeOS.
BeOS was the greatest thing to ever appear in desktop computing, period. The rest of the world won't catch up for at least a decade. But life goes on and for now, KDE/Linux offers a great alternative to Microsoft. Within the next five years KDE/Linux will provide everything that MS does for the basic office user for *free*. It still isn't BeOS but Linux is really moving toward being the OS of the masses.