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Originally Posted by ProfessorAlekM
It's a bit of an Apple vs Linux situation. You can buy an expensive Apple computer that 'just works', and the software is completely closed off and protected, so you never have to worry about it. Or you can use Linux, which is free and works efficiently, you would just have to assemble the software yourself, which is slightly more time consuming.
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This is not a bad analogy.
If you were doing a mission critical presentation, say to the CEO of some big company, which would you rather use?
I would rather have something that "just works". I would like to know that when I boot up my laptop and start my presentation, it
will work. That my laptop won't fail on me because, oops, apparently I didn't do that DIY upgrade correctly and I accidentally broke it. That if I do have a failure, I can say "oops, oh well, can I borrow someone else's laptop?"
And even if you say "I'm smart and I can guarantee mine wouldn't fail like that", then put yourself in different shoes. You're running a conference with hundreds of attendees. Which would you rather each of
them be using? Can you trust everyone else to be as smart as you?