On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:29:27 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf
wrote:

However I'm personally quite happy with a "choose the tool that suits you
for the task in hand" approach, so don't expect everyone to have the same
preferences as myself.

I'm intrigued whether this was really your procedure. You discovered
a nifty application that ran only on Linux or RISC so kitted up with a
suitable system to run it? I rather suspect it was the other way
round, you fell in love with the os and stoutly maintain the available
applications aren't really THAT bad :-)