Good bye Linux

After 10 years of love hate (mostly love) relationship with Linux, I finally bid good bye. Like any affair, I occasionally feel the pangs and hear 'baby come back' in my head. But I think I have outgrown it. I started using Linux on the desktop in 1999 as a student in IIT Kanpur when a fresh lot of Slackware loaded PCs arrived one fine morning at the computer center. It was love at first sight. I have stood by Linux through thick and thin, wrote my Ph.D thesis on it. The high point was of course Ubuntu and how (like dellusioned flower children) I hoped that this would surely be the thing. Sadly, Ubuntu too disappointed me - too many papercuts, no baseline, blah blah. I am a little sad - and I do have a little partition on my home computer with Jaunty (which only my wife uses every once in a while). But also I feel a huge load has lifted from my shoulders. I have now embraced OSX with both arms and its a good feeling when everything works without having to break things apart. Well goodbye my love - I really thought it would work out. Well maybe some day Linux will become a popular desktop but there are too many broken bits to make it even remotely useful. Maybe I'm getting old :)