Linux drove me to get a Mac

[Tyler Aviss]

I think one of the big issues to consider is that NONE of these get
the job done for everyone, and often enough no one OS may even get the
job done for an individual. Plenty of people I know use windows for
games (the ones that don't run in other OS's), Linux for a general OS,
and sometimes a Mac for other purposes (and certainly many have gone
with the iPhone, which is somewhat of a new contender for 'other
purposes' in itself).

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:54 PM, John McGregor <mr.mcgregor-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Kamran Khan wrote:
>> After 7 years of Linux being my primary desktop operating system at
>> home(I tinkered with Linux since the Walnut Creek days) I jumped to a
>> MacBook with Leopard.  OS X is basically BSD UNIX with nice candy on
>> top so you all the command tools that I came to love in UNIX and Linux
>> are pretty much available.  OS X has better support for hardware,
>> especially gadgets like cell phones and cameras.  Not as much as
>> Windows but more then Linux and major vendors like Nokia release their
>> software natively for OS X.  OS X has better support for games, some
>> of the big games are native on OS X and of course there is Wine and
>> Cedega.  OS X has much better integration between its applications
>> like iCal and mail.app.  Lastly, overall OS X is more "polished" then
>> Linux.  Linux as server operating system is excellent but when you
>> move closer and closer to end user applications you see a lack of
>> refinement, lack of polish, sometimes a lot of instability and very
>> poor integration.  The fasciation of getting things to work with Linux
>> has long since passed and when I buy a printer I pretty much just want
>> to plug it in.  You pay a big premium for what is essentially PC
>> hardware but so far it has proven to be the best desktop os I can
>> find.  So long Linux, see you on embedded devices everywhere.
> Ultimately platform choice is about getting your own work done. Your
> message indicates that you have discovered that Apple provides a more
> efficient / productive platform for you. That's a good thing. There is,
> however, an undercurrent in your post that seems to state that the rest
> of us on this list don't get it. We do. Linux is our platform of choice.
> It empowers us to get our work done.
>
> John
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