Essentially what you're saying is I should toss the systems that work very well for the work I do simply because everyone else uses Windows.
The first big game for the Amiga was Lemmings, wasn't it? I learned everything I need to know by playing Lemmings. :lol:
I do have a PC, I do run WindowsXP on it when I need to, and WindowsXP does have quite a list of features that my other OSs don't. However, I don't use Windows for my work unless I'm absolutely pushed into a corner to do so. I have other systems that allow the work to flow much more smoothly. For example, very frequently I need to access a window that's behind another window without moving it forward. I'm sure Windows has a way to turn off "always move my window to the front when I do anything more than look at it" somewhere, but even with that off, Windows has a climsiness to it that I just can't get all cozy with. Frequently, programs I run like to rearrange my windows without my input. I have a specific order I like to keep my work windows in, and Windows takes it upon itself to move and resize them at its whim. I can probably dig around and find the "don't rearrange my windows" setting, but I just can't be bothered to. After that, we have the "let's select the entire line and put the cursor at the end on single-click" feature. That one's fun too. The "whoops, you clicked close when you meant to click minimize" attraction has caught me a few times when I catch late-night, dreary-eye syndrome. The "resize the window at any edge" feature just about drives me nuts, and there are several more little things that just remind me that windows isn't there yet. It might be in a few more releases, but from what I'm hearing I'll be steering clear of those as well. Meanwhile, I'll be digging even deeper into the systems that do work well for me.
Oh yeah, my favorite one: I was working on a resume for a friend a few years back, and I used the word "focussed". Silly me, I used MerriamWebster.com to spell-check. Now you'd think that would be perfectly acceptable and everything would turn out fine. Well, unfortunately, the rest of the office world uses Microsoft Word now as the official English spell-checking reference, and since Microsoft Word rejected the properly spelled "focussed", the interviewer noted the "misspelling," the job was given to someone else (for whatever reason) and I got a face full of what-for until I proved that the dictionary, the real dictionary, says I really do know how to spell.
So, what do I use Windows for? As time permits, MajorMud, GTA Vice City and Warcraft III, along with a few other games that also won't let me choose what OS to run them on, and that's about as far as I'm willing to go with it.
