Video editing and professional photoshopping/vector graphicking is what initially pushed me towards OSX. Reliable/quick/easy sleep/wakeup on laptop sealed the deal.
I used to run Linux on both desktop and laptop, but then I switched to having just one laptop and needed to start doing serious video editing -- so I made it an Apple :( I'm kinda curious about other peoples' stories here too. Why do FOSS OS'es miss the mark for so many of us Free Culturites? --Dean On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Kevin Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christina identifies a troubling phenomenon: > >>.I'm pretty concerned with how successful at "freewashing" Apple >> is as a corporation. Maybe I'm totally off the mark, but my sense is that >> Mac has been promoting its products as hip & cool and, somehow, ethically >> better than Windows. A lot of free software supporters scoff at using >> Windows but are totally comfortable running OS X, and that worries me >> (because clearly Ubuntu ftw). > > > Apple is in the appliance game. As a whole, it doesn't seem > particularly interested in the kind of free-wheeling, all-purpose > computing that would fit FC peeps. So what gives? > > Is it the apparent ease with which foss apps are ported? Is it the > nice hardware? Is it the not-windows-ness? > > It's certainly not the cost! > > $$$, > Kevin > (Full disclosure, I use a Mac desktop machine at work, Windows for > DJing, and various Linux flavors for everything else so I'm certainly > no purist. Simply curious about the phenomenon.) > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
