Like most American corporations, Windows Vista is the standard issue on the laptops at the company I work for. I won’t go into a rant about it – let’s just say it isn’t what I normally use at home. When I do bring my laptop home so I can work, I sometimes witness a kind of fatigue setting in, beyond my physical or mental exhaustion. The annoyances of the tools start to loom large.
The other evening I had a few hours of work to do that did not require access to the corporate network – so I booted from an Ubuntu live cd. Logging into Salesforce or the other websites I use during my work day. Felt like I had taken a refreshing nap, or shifted to a much more comfortable work chair.