Why I like my Ubuntu box more than my iMac

At first the iMac was a cool product, all shiny, all aluminum. The construction was the selling point; I also liked OSX Tiger. I went all-in too. I bought Photoshop CS3 and a dozen other paid applications like Transmit, Textmate, etc. Everything went well for a while. I tried Quicksilver and found it marginally useful at best (experts disagree). Fortunately Quicksilver is free so I didn’t loose anything by trying it out. Unfortunately, the other apps I bought were not free and I found them to be only marginally useful as well.

Everything I was doing with Transmit I could do with gFTP. Everything I was doing with Textmate I could do with SciTE. I wasted around a hundred dollars on software that had equally good open source alternatives.

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