[eitland]

> Most jobs would send you with HR to have a serious talk if they found out you lost a week reverse engineering a display link docking station because your multi-monitor setup wouldn't run after installing Fedora in your job laptop.

That would be reasonable, if Linux development isn't your job.

And if you do it for the fun of it I say of course you should do it on your own time.

> But that's none of my business. Kids are free to believe in Santa.

Unnecessary attempt at an insult IMO.

>> For the rest of us at least mainstream Linux distros are almost as easy as Windows if not easier in some cases.

> You usually install Linux because you enjoy working with the terminal, not because it's easy to use, but I certainly understand where do you come from. Ubuntu has done an amazing job to lower the barrier to start using Linux.

Plain wrong IMO: I can interact with a terminal all I want without installing Linux just by running putty. In fact I prefer gui for most things except sysadmin stuff.