often, and I'm the lone PC guy in an office full of Mac fans.
But as far as my Mom goes, she's got a *nix guy handy (me), though if
something went wrong with the subsystem I'd be more likely to just
reinstall.
Anyway, I'm not out to start a holy war. After all, I've got a PC at
home, I'm answering this on a PC, and my next box will be a PC. I'm
just saying that my experience with OS X was positive (in 10.1, 10.2,
and 10.3; though 10.0 was a bastard).
--BenD
Kevin Graeme wrote:
> > Why? If I could, I'd get my Mom on a Mac. OS X is pretty nice. It's
> > generally stable, it's easy to use, and it doesn't have quite as many
> > quirks for normal users.
>
> Depends on what you do. Most of my designer friends (yes, I have
> off-the-shelf friends too) have seen OS X to be really frustrating compared
> to classic. It still crashes all the time and now it's harder for them to
> maintain because of the BSD core.
>
> I know it's not supposed to crash, but it must be something because I hear
> it from more than one person.
>
> The only people I recommend a Mac to these days are unix geeks.
>
> -Kevin
>
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