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On Monday 27 September 2004 00:05, Julian Hall wrote: <content snipped>: I think you bring up many good points. And I think that to somerise, various operating systems have something that they're good at. Given the choice, you should allways use the best tool for the job. Linux is imho best in the server market (web,email,general office etc etc) not on the desktop. Not to say it can't do the desktop role - it's just more hassle (and yes I use Linux on my primary laptop). Windows actually is a pretty good desktop - once you've gone through the hoops of securing it. Both are probably pretty good video editing suites - depending upon you choice of hardware. I'm sure OS2 is/was good at something - just can't think of it at present. Mac OS X is a superb interface - shame it requires obscure hardware (perhaps obscure is the wrong phrase). The various classes of users that you refer to each have they're own requirements. The technical users can probably get by using almost anything as a desktop OS, but there's no way a pointy-clicky user is going to get by with anything slightly unusual. The professional user will simply learn to use whatever tools are the best at the job - regardless of OS that it runs on. If it costs him some productivity whilst he learns the new application then so be it - he'll simply take that hit because he needs some feature of the new application. At the end of the day simply use what ever suites you needs best. Jon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.