> > Also - for me at least, learning Unix as an occasional activity (e.g. > cygwin, the occasional ssh, trying a couple of things) has had very little > value. Didn't work for me in the least. I remember how I installed cygwin > for the first time and started it. It was very exciting - I could try Unix > in a sandbox! So I started cygwin.bat and there it was - one black window > with a "% " prompt. I knew only ls and pwd, so I ran those, and then > closed the box. Unix wasn't telling me anything. I did exactly that :D
> I had to complete a sizable task before I felt I'd started to get the > point. > If I were to switch right now it would take me a few days to install all the programs. Most programs I use are open source anyways, so that wouldn't be a problem. Even my old Photoshop is gold or so in wine. But then I would just have a slightly crippled windows box (less games, cs4 and office are garbage on ubuntu). When would I start using things that aren't on windows?
