Heating Help (and maybe something I can relate to)
I’ve started a thread on HeatingHelp.com to get advice on what to do with our old oil-fired steam heat system.
Being a software developer I feel like in some ways I can relate to these guys; in plumbing as in coding there are a lot of little internal technical details that make a system run well and maintainable that the end user never looks at. The debates between oil and gas or steam/water/air are also something I can relate to. I’d say it goes something like this:
| Warm Air | Windows | No one says it’s perfect, but it’s the best overall choice most of the time, and most customer-friendly experience. |
| Hot Water | Linux | Great technically, but not as slick and not supported by a big national brand, you need to find a local guy who knows what he’s doing. |
| Steam | Unix | Industrial-strength, but you are much more dependent on paying good people/vendors to keep the thing running. |
I could make the comparison with Macs but I think central heating is more like running a server.
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