Diving solo vs. diving with a buddy

Is it more fun? Is it safer? - what do you think?

Here's an easily-digested article about dive buddies. After touching on whether diving with a buddy is more fun or not, the piece moves on to try to answer the (more important?) question: Is diving with a buddy safer or not.

Despite one diver's proclamation that his dive buddy nearly killed him (think: panic); to some tough-guy talk from a typically-solo tech diver; to Porg's tacit suggestion that a bad buddy is usually better than no buddy at all, most of the divers believe that diving with a buddy is a solidly good idea. I'm on board with that opinion – for both safety and fun reasons – 100%.

But what about you? How do you compare diving solo with diving with a buddy? Is there even a comparison? Is it more fun? Is it safer? Do you feel constrained?

Source: www.divester.com