The Dangers of Linux

Linux Addiction?

I'll be surprised if this comic isn't all over the place in a few hours, but you may as well see it here.

Of course, writing drivers for hardware is a wee bit easier when the companies actually talk to you. The laugh for me might not be what the author intends; not because peripherals are always broken on Linux (they aren't) but because the power of Linux makes the newbie redefine "broken" so rapidly. In Windows, "broken" used to mean that the computer crashed more than once or twice a day. In Linux, a "broken" Xorg might just mean that some default setting in the distribution prevents me from running multiple instances at the same time. "Broken" starts to mean, "it won't do exactly what I'm imagining it could." Linux can become the most addicting computer game ever devised.