It's ironic this post is downmodded but the comic itself is upmodded.

Goes to show a valuable lesson for all aspects of life: Presentation matters.

The comic is sort of funny, but a comment about someone being scared off by make and Linux on a site for hackers is like someone on a cooking site saying "what's this blender bullshit, ah fuck it, I'm going out to eat".

Wait, I thought all real hackers use Macs.

(-1, flamebait)

Not all of us are developers/programmers. I'm just a fan :)

Goes to show there are downarrows on comments but not front page links.

I'm unable to downvote anything on this site as my karma score is too low, so I just vote everything up instead, even if I disagree, I upvote. Everyone who reads this comment will downvote it though. Weird.

Mine was like this:

2003: I haven't been able to get X working under Debian Woody for a month or so. This terminal is actually pretty nice though once you get used to it.

december-2003: Holy shit I got X working. Oh my god. Well, at least I have a good understanding of just about everything else on my system now.

2004: What's this Ubuntu thing, hmm. Oh, X worked without a hitch. I think I'll use this for a while.

2008: LORDY! I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT WITH MY OS!

Ubuntu was the first Linux I ever tried, on my previous computer.

It installed smoothly and I was pleasantly surprised. Apt-get was working its magic and it seemed like I could escape from Microsoft's clutches!

But then I made the mistake of getting a new computer which could handle modern games, and suddenly things weren't so simple anymore..

Long story short:

I've got a 8800GTS which required proprietary drivers etc, and for some reason the picture seemed somehow fuzzy.

The whole computer didn't boot up without adding "irqpoll" to the boot options, and Ubuntu refused to recognize my fairly standard Samsung 226BW monitor, or use its native resolution at the normal refresh rate, etc.

After "enough" googling and getting Ubuntu to refuse booting up by fiddling with my xorg.conf etc, I decided I'd wait for Hardy, hoping there would be fewer or no problems.

Along comes Hardy, and now the install-CD doesn't want to boot up even despite casting the "irqpoll" spell!

After installing maybe four different flavors of Linux (over a period of maybe less than a year), two flavours of BSD, I just couldn't get things to work, and finally gave up.

I'm writing this on a MacBook, and happy to be using one.

The thing is, I really wanted to use Linux, but as someone who just wants to use things and not investigate and fix them, Mac OS X seems to be a much better fit.

Besides, it's really pretty and offers a coherent, consistent user-experience! :)