I have a nasty feeling that by the time I retire, with inflation, $1 million won't buy quite as much as $1 million will buy today.

WSL is pretty good, and keeps getting better little by little. It's no where near perfect.

I use WSL nearly everywhere I used to use CMD, and it works like a champ because I'm more familiar with the core tools.
Windows doesn't have an x server built in, but if you install one like xming, you can run a handfull of graphical applications. (I've used gedit, geany, and a few others... I've test several that work pretty wonky, and there are several that just won't run)

It would be nice if ~ would take you to your windows profile directory, but most of my gripes with that are taken care of now that symlinks work, and I can just link the things I want access to.

It works good for pushing/pulling code to git, SSHing into servers, having access to a full set of the command line tools I am familiar with (and working how I'm used to them working vs. the hit-and-miss I get on my Mac Mini - I've fixed some of that by installing the latest core tools through brew) the Clipboard of the Windows console window that WSL runs in is a pain...but I'm getting used to it. (The Mac gives the best clipboard integration of all three)

At this point, I'm able to work on Window/Linux/Mac comfortably, and use a pretty similar tool set on all three. (although, Adobe tools are only on my Windows and Macs...and if you know Adobe tools, Gimp/Krita/Pinta/etc make you much less productive... it's like trying to change your gait while walking)

In all, my only major gripe with any of the platforms is that on my Windows and Linux boxes, I'm proficient at touch-typing, and the key commands are in my muscle memory. On my Mac, I have to slow down and think about what I'm pressing... and for some reason they key-placement on the Apple keyboard screws up regular typing.

Get off my lawn!

...and just after I wasted my mod points

There Microsoft goes stealing features from Macs again. First the GUI, then the App Store, now this!

It's enough to make me melt down about all of the innovation they steal from the best tech company out there!

>:P

My box of guns was stolen you insensitive clod!

Get this, and keep it on your NAS.

https://support.microsoft.com/...

Apple isn't going to kill cash with ...
1. A Market share that fluctuates between 40% to 60% market share from generation to generation.
2. People who still use terms like "Davenport" and "Ice Box"
3. People who still use flip phones.
4. Anyone who doesn't want to be tracked.

I know several people who refuse to have cellular devices or bank cards because they would rather pay their bills in cash, or by converting cash into a money order and sending it.

As for digital payment services for brick-and-mortar stores, the only one I have ever liked was tied to the store's POS system, and didn't require me to screw around with my phone at the checkout to pay. I just put my finger on a reader, entered a pin, and used one of the payment methods I had previously stored in their system.

Hans? Is that you, Mr. Reiser?

All I need to do is make a jumbo-sized tinfoil hat for my car.

I'm hoping Facebook will be defunct by the time I kick.

Around here, they don't steal the cellphone because it is valuable. They steal it so they have more of a head start before you can call the police.

I wish there was a CUPS layer for Windows, so we could install it as a driver and just use the tinly little PPD like other Operating systems do rather than the 600-900Mb monstrosities that manufacturers provide as drivers.

Like http://wikimapia.org/ ?

Having worked for a non-profit, all I can say is... that's nice but who donates hardware that Win8.1 can run on?

As of 2009, the fastest computer at the org I was volunteering at was 1.2GHz with 512Mb of memory.