Fun thread.

[Mike Richardson]

Jesse Jarzynka wrote:
> 	Quiet, so how about a fun thread? While I spend much time telling
> people how Linux is better than Windows in many (if not all) ways, I
> frequently get the response: "So what can I do in Linux that I can't do
> in Windows?". We all know there are Windows apps that lock people into
> Windows, can anyone think of some good apps for Linux that would lock
> people in? 

Ehh, there are no ports of the Linux kernel to Windows yet. That alone 
keeps me locked in... :)

I can't say there's any "killer app" that locks me into Linux. As far as 
personal desktop OSes at work, one employer has specific guidelines 
keeping me in Microsoft Land(tm), the other doesn't.

Since I build rather extensive database-driven websites, I've found that 
the Linux builds of Apache, PHP and MySQL are much more stable. PHP 
especially has major issues behaving on IIS (mainly relating to sessions 
and accurate timestamping), enough that we're phasing out our site 
license for Windows 2000 Advanced Server to install RedHat Enterprise 
Linux ES.

-- 
Mike