Distro-hopping is probably the biggest reason people spend a lot of time working on their computer with linux. There are new distros coming out every week, and if you have a fast internet connection it's easy to download the ones that sound appealing and burn a live cd. If you decide to install it, then you spend time setting everything up the way you want it. You'd only do that once every few years with Windows or OS X. The number of specialty distros is getting crazy. I'm waiting for one geared to ophicleide and serpent players, but when it comes out it will probably be for left-handed green-eyed ophicleide and serpent players! "everything just works", hunh? Here's a challenge for you: Get a handspring visor pda, and get it to sync with OS X Tiger. Go ahead, I double dog dare you. (then tell me everything you did in detail that you did so I can reproduce it)
I've just had it with commercial software. I'm making 1/10 the dough I was in pre-crash days, so I can't just go out and plunk down more money to keep software I've already bought. As an example from the PC side- I had spent serious money buying Finale and Gigastudio- two music applications that I could use to type in musical accompaniments and play them with samples of 17th-century harpsichords and organs and 18th-century fortepiano. Two years later, my antivirus program said I had to upgrade to XP, and all the music software croaked. I could have spent several hundred dollars to upgrade to the newest version, but how long would it be before it happened again? I like the old mac hardware ( 450 DV iMac and dual 1.42 MDD G4 ) and Tiger, but I'm not running ANY commercial applications on any computer I own. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
