As a friend of mine once said, "When I started this job, I had an uninformed hatred of Windows. That has changed. I now have a much more informed hatred of Windows." Yah. Uh-huh. Me too.
I've used Macs very little, but I don't have that uninformed hatred that I had for Windows. Next job I have, if I have to use a Mac and learn a whole new set of tips and tricks, I'll be far happier than if I have to use something running Microsoftware again. Hmm. New interview question coming right up. :-)
I'm daily thankful that I work in an environment where the staff get to pick their own machines (and servers)... so we have typically Sun (or SGI) servers and often two heads in offices (a Mac for office things and some flavor of Unix platform for development). Although a few people do voluntarily choose Wintel office machines (poor misguided souls), often folks that have been recently hired...
Oooog. Right now the most stable flavor of Win on the whole is W2K, but of course many of us who do embedded stuff don't have much choice in the matter. IME, most WinNT and Win2K crashes are driver-specific, you might poke around for updates here and there, sadly that's much easier to do with W2K. Wish I could offer something more optimistic.
The most frustrating thing about all this is that there is absolutely no reason my work must be done on any particular kind of system at all. The OS I am writing is so far unrelated to the machine on which I run my editor that it might as well be a different animal kingdom altogether. Unfortunately, our group made a decision years ago to switch from being a Linux-based shop to being a Windows-based shop. Because of that, our compiler (technically cross-compiler) runs only on Windows. It could be ported; it could have been developed wholly for Unix; it just didn't happen that way. No one has bothered to change anything (yet) because the developers around here are insufficiently noisy about our hatred for Windows. To be perfectly honest, I know that this will be a factor in the inevitable mass exodus that will occur as soon as decent jobs start becoming available. It won't be the only factor, but it will have a significant impact.
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Phht
cursing out the work mail server (Win NT) that crashed as I walked in the office...it hates me I know it.
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Prior to the tech economy taking a dump, I was well on my way to BOFHdom. Unfortunately, the jobs in this industry are to scarce to allow pickiness.
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