This person is a competent software developer on Windows XP, I am assuming, but is apparently writing from the point of view of a non-developer who is only interested in Linux because it might contain "amazing" as yet undiscovered applications software which will in some (undefinable way) impress him. This sounds like a person who goes to church once, and fails to be converted to Christianity. Are we surprised? hardly. let me change that analogy please. Consider a man who is interested in all-things-German, German beer, food, history, and culture, and his interest in those mysterious people known to him only as "Germans" intrigue him enough that he decides to discover Germany at the next Culturama Celebration in the large north-american city in which our feckless hero lives. So he goes into the designated German pub, spends one evening there, listens to some german music, has a few german beers, shakes hands with a man in lederhosen, and then goes home. The next day at the office water cooler, he brings forward a grand lecture on german culture, history, language, beer and food. He does not like the German ways of doing things, and he was hoping that Germans would be more impressive than he finds they really are.

This is all by way of saying that perhaps our esteemed friend might not have notied that as almost everything inside and outside Linux is different than Windows in many fundamental ways, and as many of his assumptions and comfortable conventions are missing, I think a few years might be necessary, to overcome the culture shock, before anything like a reasoned opinion begins to form.

Windows users trying Linux seem to have the same attitude as the stereotypical american tourist in Paris. That tone is very subdued in the article to which I'm responding, but there is a subtle smugness that creeps through.