Linux

[vor_lord]

Well, I'm specifically thinking of a problem I'm having now in trying to move my Windows trained ops to job scheduling and automated operations with Linux machines.  Cron anyone?  Oh, you want them to write shell scripts?  Huh?
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It all has to do with past experience. I have absolutely no idea how to do job scheduling and automated operations on Windows (our Windows IT uses batch files (ack, vomit time!)). Usually on windows if I need to do some task like moving or renaming a bunch of files, I reboot into Linux and do it there, or use cygwin's bash. It's what you know.

And of course whatever you know is superior, even when it isn't :P


Oh, and for the record: I used emacs for 5 years (one of them in viper-mode), then switched to vim for the last 2. vim is an incredibly useful and powerful editor, as was emacs (even though I'd never go back). I can still remember the first time emacs came up... I couldn't figure out how to even quit--I hated it! But once you learn a powerful editor it is very hard to work in something else.