dansimonm

Me too :) I have played with various alternative OS'es, including Multics, in the hope that it could be added to the Haiku/Minoca section. But the OS has to be practical enough for casual use, and similar enough to UNIX to make a comparison viable. Sadly Multics did not qualify. It is just too limited (it reminds me a great deal of UNIX V1 - or DOS for that matter).

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this. There is no doubt that MS Office has more formatting finesse then troff. I did not mean to deny this, my point was simply that troff is good enough for many everyday needs, such as writing my article. The old NASA space pen vs Russian pencils can illustrate my point of view: It does not impress me that MS Office has slightly more finesse then the humble troff "pencil" when it is millions of lines of code more "expensive".

But yes, more sophisticated software is needed on occasion. The existence of pencils do not necessitate the burning of all pens and the persecution of its wielders. I apologize if my article causes offense, it is written in a somewhat opinionated style, in the hope of creating a humorous read. But I'm sure a tad bit of arrogance also slipped through...

If on the other hand you are refering simply to typo's, then yes, I do rightly deserve criticism. I have a light reading disorder and my mother tongue is not English. But I am working on this :)

Yes, you can do virtually everything mentioned in my blog with Emacs, especially since you can run almost any console command in it (also ncurses ones with M-x ansi-term). I deliberatley tried to avoid Emacs so as not to go to far of topic. I am toying with the idea of writing an Emacs Desktop Howto though ;)

Thanks for reading my blog :) There may indeed be quite a few errors in there. I meant no offense to Nvidia users, I just have fairly bad experience with that graphic card and console/desktop work on UNIX systems. By that, I mean, things like BSD's and Solaris. Naturally, Linux is your best bet for driver support.