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All those people double clicking on vista sure don't seem to be getting much out of it. at least with linux (and everyone should bow to my sociopathy and run Debian with WindowMaker at home) you have a huge resource from which to draw to get an answer, and you don't even have to pay $1/minute to stay on hold.

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I doubt your average wal-mart shopper has created their own operating system. I think Linus can take a little command line action.

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LT: A "specific" one? No. I have changed distributions over the years, and it tends to really end up depending on various random circumstances, like just when I switch machines around and what happens to be convenient.So right now I happen to run Fedora on my machines, which largely came about from me running on POWER for a few years, and Fedora supported it pretty well (and since I actually don't care that deeply about the distribution, I tend to prefer running the same thing on everything, just to keep any distro issues away).Before Fedora had PowerPC support, I ran YDL for a while, and before that I had SuSE. Funnily enough, the only distributions I tend to refuse to touch are the "technical" ones, so I've never run Debian, because as far as I'm concerned, the whole and only point of a distribution is to make it easy to install (so that I can then get to the part I care about, namely the kernel), so Debian or one of the "compile everything by hand" ones simply weren't interesting to me. I'm amazed how misinformed/outdated he is about debian.

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So basically you're an idiot savant who can't poke his limited brain outside his tiny corner of the universe. That must play HELL with your job prospects.

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I love how ll the Linux fangirls keep glossing over the fact that Linux's own inventor admits Linux can't play Youtube videos. You can't play flash based video and you think your derivative os is somehow "better" than Windows???

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Yeah I read that interview and I remember there was a website that had pictures of famous computer people's desktops somewhere(I wish I could remember where?) and it looked like he was running a version of Fedora Core.Besides Linus is pragmatic so of course he's gonna run the same distro(currently Fedora) to limit distro specific issues as he says and to save time from having to build a distro from scratch,etc. That doesn't mean he doesn't prefer the command line though.APC: What software do you use everyday? Your browser, desktop (if any), email client and so on?LT: Well, ignoring the actual development stuff (make, compiler, editor etc), it ends up being mostly just xterms and "alpine" (the newer version of the venerable old "pine" email reader. Strictly text-based, thank you very much).And yes, a browser is mostly open in the background. There's a few technical discussion forums I'm active on when I have nothing better to do (or when I do have better things to do but get frustrated with them ;) , and then the normal "random" sites (boing boing etc). <a class="user" href="http://apcmag.com/linus_torvalds_talks_future_of_linux_page_3.htm&quot;&gt;http://apcmag.com/linus_torvalds_talks_future_of_l ...</a>

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Funny but look at <a class="user" href="http://on-net.info&quot;&gt;http://on-net.info&lt;/a&gt;

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