I Quit!Scaryduck writes, "I celebrated my last day on my paper round by giving everybody next door's paper, and the house at the end 16 copies of the Maidenhead Advertiser. And I kept the delivery bag. That certainly showed 'em."
What have you flounced out of? Did it have the impact you intended? What made you quit in the first place?
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chthonic, Thu 22 May 2008, 12:15)
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I think I knowThe key is in the phrase:
"Windows Vista, which I've just installed on my development PC"
Vista is a pile of shite. I know it, you know it. But I bought a copy with my work machine. And you bought a copy. So did lots of people.
Vista stinks. So what's the alternative?
1 - Stick with XP - MS is trying to make it as hard as possible, but it can be done. My new gaming machine will have XP (with a Fedora partition), and it will run like a beast as a result.
2 - Linux - Sorry, but command lines went out of fashion in about 1992, and despite the various GUI shells, you need to know the command line to do all but the most basic things. There's a million different versions, all of which work differently. It's too hard for newbies to get the hang of, and that sinks it for home and business use, so it's only used for servers and geeks.
3 - Apple. There's a reason the Mac only has 4% market share, and the fact that Leopard sucks almost as badly as Vista is just the start. Apple's stance towards pricing, cloning and its baffling decision to make developing for Mac way harder than it should be all contribute to its niche status.
4 - An etch-a-sketch.
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