At some point in my future I will break my air conditioning in the middle of summer because I was trying to integrate it with presence information and the forecast of the national weather service. I say this because, despite ostensibly having a job working with technology all day, I spent most of the evening wrestling with Apache trying to get phpmyadmin, rtgui and my custom rolled phone record application (rails) all running simultaneously. I’ve now been wrestling for about 5 hours and I don’t think anything is working any better. Well I can hit phpmyadmin, but only by typing a different url than before.
If Linux Just Worked ™ I don’t think I would enjoy it. The endless tinkering is almost soothing. I’m honestly a little saddened that I was able to put Vista on my media box and the only tinkering I got to do was trying in vain to recover the 400 GiB of my former RAID array. If it were Linux, I surely could have been fiddling long past the point at which I just decided I really don’t need every episode of Scrubs, Arrested Development, 24, Family Guy, Battlestar Gallactica, and The Office available at all times.