Ardent Meridian

I have completed the setup of the first two systems, specifically my primary Vista x64 instance and the OS X build.  Rather than taking my existing configurations for these systems, I started from scratch with bare drives.

This was partly out of a desire to keep things pure, and also because my primary Vista installation was something I did nearly 18 months ago and much of what was involved there has been forgotten and/or has changed.

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As a professional software engineer/architect I make frequent use of all three of today’s primary PC operating systems – Windows, OS X and Linux on a regular basis.

To this point, each of them has fulfilled a specific role, or been required for a particular purpose.  And, while I do categorize and view them differently, I have no religious preference for any of them.

They are facilitators, environments, for running other software and tools which I use in both my personal and professional life.

For a good while now I have been wondering just how well each might fulfill the role of my primary desktop operating system.

I do not, necessarily, believe there is one single environment that can meet all of the needs I currently have of my primary desktop, but I am interested in finding out which might be the most generally applicable and, perhaps, most pleasurable to work with.

I spend a great deal of time working at my computer, so if there are things I can do that make the experience either more productive, or more enjoyable, then they are worth evaluating in a frank and honest manner.

That is the purpose of this experiment; to spend a week each with Windows, OS X and Linux as my primary desktop operating system and see how well each works and what is good and bad about my experiences with each.

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