I feel your pain, Tom. I have had a few days like the ones you've been through. Surplussed a fine SCSI CDRW drive and scanner, too, just to move to X. Battled tooth and nail more than once to get X running on a nearly outdated and too slow G3. USB and FW PCi cards, then a combo card to deliver 2.0 USB. A Radeon 7000 graphics card to boost display speed. XPostFacto so I can boot off FireWire to avoid the 8GB limitation on beige G3s. Oh, and a G4 processor upgrade.
Bottom line. I am tickled pink with what X delivers. Apps that were never available under 9, many of which were ported from other platforms. And, I am liking learning a little Unix, too.


I've played around with a few Windows boxes. Too clunky for my taste. I like telling my computer what to do; not having it tell me what I must do. There are growing pains. But the upside is so fascinating. And satisfying. For me, anyway. Your mileage may vary.

On Monday, May 31, 2004, at 05:44 AM, Thomas Baker wrote:
Everybody talks about how much trouble Windows is, but I would ask this: do
Windows installers have to rip the entire insides out of their computers
just to install an OS? I seriously doubt it. So much for Apple's vaunted
"ease of use, plug-and-play," and all the other things that Macs used to
stand for.
Regards,

Wayne

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