A recent post over at our friends the Global Geek Podcast got me to thinking about how i run this show and how I operate and work with computers in my daily life. I don’t subscribe to any one doctrine and get rankled when one camp or another goes out of their way to slam the other. So I’ve come up with a description for where I see computer use heading. Or at least where I would like it to head, which is towards a multi platform environment. An economic outsourcing of work to the system the work fits best onto. We’ll call this functionalism. There are positives and negatives of each platform you could choose to work on. SO lets give this fight a run down. And since I’m a pessimist lets start with the cons first. CONS: Because it pays to know what your getting into Linux: Rocky Road, nutty with a creamy streak running through it Just try to install a new driver, application or digital camera. basically pray that someone before you already wrote the software to do it. Half the video cards in the world only sort of work. Chances are if you have a […]