Linux drove me to get a Mac
Jose
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Thu Jan 8 14:14:30 UTC 2009
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.
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I stick to Suse or Fedora, I have no need for games or fancy software or
hardware, OS X is supported by a multimillion company who better have
good support for their own devices or they wouldn't have that kind of
money coming in
Hey , I have worked with X and I don't find it usable for my personal
needs as is the case for most hardcores in this list, if OS X suits you
better, all the best
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