My Disclaimer:

Я просто обязан это процитировать как есть. Такие топики встречаются редко, но я готов подписаться под каждым высказыванием.
Для понимания:
Я хардкорный linux юзер, упоротый до такой степени, что использовал linux как основной десктоп на протяжении 2х лет. Искушенный системный администратор и считаю linux - лучшей серверной платформой. 

Disclaimer

This post is a bona fide rant. It tells how a hardcore Linux user (me) decided to abandon Linux as a desktop platform and the reasons behind this decision. It might provoke some controversy, but I frankly don’t care.

Overture

I’m generally known as one of the biggest supporters of GNU/Linux, I’ve taught courses on Linux administration, I’ve spoken at Linux conferences and I naturally use Linux as my primary desktop on all my machines. Well, that last part is not so true anymore. Here the story begins…

The background

I’ve been using GNU/Linux exclusively for 8 years now. I’ve spent a lot of time with Fedora, Gentoo and Arch Linux. I use it at home, I use it at work and along the way I’ve converted many Windows users to Linux. I’ve lived through a lot of driver and software problems with Linux, hoping that the day would come when it will become a first-class citizen of the desktop operating systems town. Alas, this day never came and probably never will.

My patience ended this week and I’ll be gradually moving all my desktop machines back to Windows. What caused me to take such drastic course of action? I’ve bought myself a new ThinkPad T520 laptop, powered by Nvidia’s Optimus GPU switching technology - when the GPU load is low it uses the built-in Sandy Bridge GPU, when it gets higher - it switches to the discrete NVS 4200M GPU. Needless to say - this technology is not supported under Linux, but I was prepared to live without it. After all both Intel and Nvidia are known to have decent Linux drivers so I was about to try both GPU and select the one with the better performance. All I had to do was pick a shiny new distribution to power my mobile powerhouse…

(Source: batsov.com)

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