Why Not... I always had an interested in Linux when I first had a computer. Those days I tried installing Red Hat Linux 5.0 but had problems configuring hardware and soon lost interest. However, I had an Apple Mac during my undergrads; hence... a bit of a taste of unix(linux) there during programming... But I wasn't truly in need of ditching my Windows computer. When I started research I had to use external libraries which were primarily written for unix like OSs. I stil survived another year with Cygwin and Windows XP. But had difficulties in compiling and getting things work. That's the time I got this ThinkPad SL510 with Win 7 installed. I decided immediately to give Ubuntu 10 (at the time) a go with dual boot. I was simply addicted to it and never booted windows again. I was happy and got my work done in half the time I could under Windows and external libraries, boost were all there with a simple apt-get. I even got used to EMACS for all my text editing.
Another year passed by, and I realised that Ubuntu lacked some oomph here and there and observed some lagging in multi tasking. I heard that mother of Ubuntu is still out there performing faster so I erased Windows completely to make space for a Debian installation of squeeze. It looked a bit out dated so soon upgraded to wheezy and unstable. I was truly happy.
I still have my Debian installation (as of this first post) and been experimenting with OSs since then. I gave Arch Linux a go... But realised that Debian could do the same... Hmmm.... Which ever distro I stumbled upon, It just confirmed Debian is strong and can't be beaten with the combined flexibility and stability, proving this review.
While day dreaming, I asked my self, why Apple is so nice but still stable and Linux is still short of that prettyness? GNOME can be a bit prettier and KDE can be a less prettier and more fluid (I mean...look less like Win 7). One reason for OS Xs to be stable is their set, tested hardware config. But why not give its base system FreeBSD a go.
Then I read about Beastie (BSD), and found manuals for everything. Not bad eh...
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