Interesting. I had exactly the opposite experience :-)

But then I'm one of those over 30 used Unix before Linux Linux types.
Honestly lots of things about Linux frustrate me.  Lack of any sort of
stable ABI.. OpenSource projects du-jour instead of real
collaboration.  

Don't get me wrong. I use Linux daily as my main platform.  I can be
productive in it.  When I used the b66 nevada developers build though I
was very impressed with the overall experience (this on an HP tablet
pc).  Lots of stuff worked. Most of the desktop experience is what I'd
expect (some apps were a bit sluggish but the RT stuff has been
discussed previously and it wasn't unuseable). 

The only thing I'd suggest was missing was a repo of "extras" I can go
to when I want to install stuff not in the base distribution.  So if I
had to describe my experience vis. Indiana I'd say the problem that
needs to be solved is a community that ports commonly used packages to
the base distribution (for me at least nevada could be that
distribution). Not unlike Fedora "Extras" was for Fedora Core.

Mike

On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 09:16 -0700, MC wrote:
> > I've just spent 3 weeks using Solaris Express for the first time (and
> > hated every minute of it)
> 
> Now would be a good time to jot down why that is :)
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