Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris....

So many operating systems, how is one to choose, and which one is 'best'?

Well, there's no real answer for that. If I had to choose on that's 'best', I'd have (to my own chagrin) choose Windows, and more specifically, Windows XP. Windows Vista really is a PoS unfortunately, and though there are a few cool things there, it's the first Microsoft operating system since Windows 95 that I really haven't been wow'ed by. Microsoft has made huge strides with almost every release of their operating systems with the exception of 'Windows ME' and 'Windows Vista', which truly were disappointments to me and to the geek community as a whole, as I can gather.

If I had to choose a 'next best', it would be OS X. OS X has some amazing things going for it and it truly is an amazing operating system - some of its features I really pine for when using a Windows machine. If you're a 'real' geek and have written off Macs as many geeks have, give them the opportunity to wow you. Many hardcore geeks have switched to using OS X as their primary OS, and Apple manages to have that 'wow' factor about its products that extremely few companies have been able to pull off (e.g. the iPhone - how much marketing and hype did the press and others do to market the product? Most companies would do anything short of (and possibly including) murder to get that kind of self-perpetuating publicity. Whether you're a believer or not, you have to admit Apple has something 'going on'.

Time, time, time time......

Oh, to have too much time on your hands.... not wholly and truly 'yours', by which I mean you can have complete freedom and control over what you're doing, but in at least some ways, it approaches a freedom of sorts. In my particular case, I'm referring to my job, where I am an overpaid geek and where rarely is anything going on, and so I have to spend a lot of free time physically in my office, in the event the phone rings and someone needs assistance, and I scurry off to raid the pesky issues from their computer.

So, with all this time on my hands that is 'mine-but-isn't', I've dorked around with various flavors of Linux, tried to follow the more trendy OSS projects, and engaged myself in whatever semi-practical matters I can that can improve my geek worthiness as well as tinker with things I otherwise wouldn't get the opportunity to. An issue has arose, however, several times, where I have very vague or no recollection of my thoughts on a particular Linux version, geek problems I've run into in the past and their solutions, and similar situations that basically cause me to repeat the past because of my failure to have exceptional recall as I once had. In my senility, I resort to writing notes, and in doing so, hope that others may potentially benefit as well.