Thanks Robert.
I hate to see all the young, coming up, possible, programmers be locked out due to an attitude that 32 must die so 64 can flourish.
Tasking a newcomer with all the command line and headache of having a system at a unreasonable price is not encouragement, it is discouragement.
The price to program in the MS world is exhoratent; in the Linux world it is very, very reasonable. Ubuntu will need some of those fresh, out of the box, brains in the very near future. Don’t shut them out.
Without them, Apple would have never existed. IMO, Apple and Visi-Calc brought the PC to the home, through the backdoor of the business market. Witness all the talent we have seen flourish.