So what can I say?
Jan. 22nd, 2003 12:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dtmSo I was all excited about moving my desktop machine at work over to linux: tech support had said they'd support it, I had gotten the relevant information about using clearcase with linux, and I had resigned myself to sqsh running over freetds instead of RapidSQL. Most of my development is already done either inside Xemacs or eclipse, and almost all the debugging is done on various local Solaris boxes that just use my desktop machine as an X11 server. With abiword or openoffice for the occasional word documents, I was all set. (yeah, not having a RapidSQL replacement was going to be minorly painful, especially without a linux version of defncopy, but I decided I could deal with that) So far so good.
However, when I proposed this to my boss, she asked me: "What does this get you? It probably means no work from you for three days, so why would I approve this?"
And I didn't really have an answer. The much-maligned BSOD has hit me all of once since I started working here 2.5 years ago; that's not a reason. I haven't ever had to do script-like things on my own machine that cygwin or ActivePerl couldn't handle.
So what compelling advantage have I forgotten about that makes it worth the time sink (and subsequent minor annoyances as stuff doesn't work)? Keep in mind that the cost savings of avoiding the Windows tax is not something the company will ever see because of how we pay our licensing.
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However, when I proposed this to my boss, she asked me: "What does this get you? It probably means no work from you for three days, so why would I approve this?"
And I didn't really have an answer. The much-maligned BSOD has hit me all of once since I started working here 2.5 years ago; that's not a reason. I haven't ever had to do script-like things on my own machine that cygwin or ActivePerl couldn't handle.
So what compelling advantage have I forgotten about that makes it worth the time sink (and subsequent minor annoyances as stuff doesn't work)? Keep in mind that the cost savings of avoiding the Windows tax is not something the company will ever see because of how we pay our licensing.
I used several trademarks in this post; they are all owned by their respective owners, and I claim no affiliation of any sort with either the products or the owners.