Hi Ed, I can understand your point on using OS X as the host OS but that is more of a limitation of OS X and not the other operating systems.
How do you like vmware? I’ve been using virtualbox for years but I heard recently there’s only one dev really maintaining it. Too big a project for that. I wonder if it will be discontinued soon? Thanks, — Eric Chadbourne > On Feb 12, 2015, at 6:50 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> From: Discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Eric Chadbourne >> >> Anybody here like OS X? Why? I’m not trolling. I’m curious. Why would >> somebody want to use this terrible piece of proprietary poop? > > I like OSX because Running OSX as the host OS is literally the only way that > you can use every OS. Because if you run some other OS as the host, you > can't run OSX as the guest. I like "best tool for the job." So I like to > use each OS for what it's best at. > > I don't use any of that crap software you mentioned. I run vmware fusion, so > at all times I have several mac desktops, and a windows desktop, and an > ubuntu desktop. > In the mac, I usually have open: chrome, skype, terminal, macvim, Xamarin > Studio, SourceTree, Finder. > In windows, I usually have open: outlook, Visual Studio, SourceTree, cygwin, > vmware vsphere, gimp, gvim. > In ubuntu, I usually have open: monoDevelop, terminal > > I like OSX best for desktop user interface, largely because that touchpad is > the best damn touchpad anybody has on any system - it's no wonder apple > patented the shit out of all the multitouch gestures stuff and they don't > license it to windows manufacturers. So the touchpad interface, on all the > other platforms, is crap by comparison, even with multitouch. > > And task switching between desktops - I know linux can *sort of* come close > to doing some of it, with all that Compiz stuff, but it's never been nearly > as good. And nothing in windows comes even close. > > Also backups in the mac. Time machine is the gold standard that windows & > linux wish they could achieve. Hardware compatibility: Just clone any HD > onto any new machine and you're good to go. With everything else you have > platform-specific drivers and hardware-locked license keys that make it > difficult to simply replace your computer and restore all your software > (whole disk image). > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
