Linux drove me to get a Mac

[Kamran Khan]

On 6-Jan-09, at 3:54 PM, John McGregor 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.
>
Sadly you don't get it.  It would seem that many of your cohorts on  
the list do not either.  For example the solution to print on  
Linux(Desktop) is to buy a postscript printer.  The solution to allow  
me to sync my SE Smart Phone with applications running on the Linux  
Desktop is?  Yes I know, buy hardware that works with Linux.  Like I  
said you don't get it.  I fail to see how your operating system  
empowers you when clearly you are a slave to it.
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