I use all four and I agree each of them is good for various environments. I could spend all day long giving examples where one fails and the other prevails, but they all have flaws and they all have benefits. You have your UNIX guys (not all of them) who have criticism of Linux for various reasons. You have UNIX/Linux guys who haven't touched Windows since 3.11 or have spent maybe 2 weeks in a year using Windows who can say nothing but bad stuff about Windows. You have your Windows admins trashing Linux when they are used to the way Windows does things. In most of these situations the user is either misinformed, unfamiliar with the system, being argumentative, or just standing up for their beliefs. I have done every one of those things, and put my foot in my mouth each time. I have worked with people who went on and on about UNIX/Linux and trashed Windows up and down and then 10min later they mention they haven't used Windows. Someone has even sat there and went on and on about flaws that Windows had in 95 and 3.11. I mean come on if you haven't used the OS in the last 5 years just shut up. I have a friend that was hesitant to install Linux because when he used Red Hat 6.2 (an 8yr old distro) it was hacked in a couple hours. These opinions are passed along to others that are less knowledgeable about computers in general and scares them away from their current OS or prevents them from moving to another.
I used to hate Linux for desktop/laptop because it wasn't what I was used to, I felt much less productive because the applications I was using were either not what I was used to, lacking features, or the interface made it horrible to work with. Even now having used it as a desktop for a while, I did move my primary desktop back to Windows because I was a lot less productive with certain tasks. I also dislike pretty much every audio player you can get for Linux. I miss the terminal a great deal, but for most of the tasks I am doing I do not need it locally, ssh into remote machines is enough. When I started using Mac OS I had the exact same opinion that David had. It took me a couple days of solid use to get over some of the changes (apps don't close by clicking the X, no maximizing, etc) and how things work. Now that I have used Mac OS for a bit I love it, I think the way it does a lot of things are very smart, but that does not mean I do not find some of the functionality annoying. I thought a lot of applications did not give you the wealth of options you would find in a lot of applications on Windows or Linux. A lot of applications have plenty of options, and the ones that don't still seem to fit. On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 2:13 PM, David Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree - they are all good for different needs. I just don't > personally have any needs that Mac OS X fills. I can accomplish a lot > more on a Windows box. > > The few small things that are done better on Mac than on Linux, I just > don't have a need for. Maybe some day, I'll have different hobbies and > different style of work, or whatever, and the Mac will be "Teh Cats > Meow" for what I'm trying to do, but at this point it's kind of a toy or > novelty at best. > > For my style of work, the Mac system is too dumbed-down, and makes it > incredibly hard to do things efficiently. There are so many things that > cannot be done via the command line. Basically the entire Finder and > U/I stuff is some proprietary system. I just can't accept that for > something that I rely on. (Yes, Windows has the same issue, but it is > easier to get around it and exploit it IMHO) > > Again, just my opinion, others may make their livelihood only by using > Mac OSX, and they just have different tasks or enjoy doing them > different ways than I do. > > > > Roger E. Rustad, Jr. wrote: > > Dante Lanznaster wrote: > > > >> well I'd pay 3 times for a windows machine instead of getting anywhere > >> near an apple. Heck, I'd still use windows ME instead of an apple. > >> > >> there is no comparison. > >> > > > > Lemme guess, Dante, You'd also rather push a Chevy than drive a Ford (or > > was it vise versa?). > > > > Am I the only one here who still uses all four -- NT, OS X, UNIX, Linux > > -- for different purposes/environments? > > > > I find them all good in various niches and, frankly, that's why I have > > at least one of each for work and/or testing. > > > > But hey, if your only tool is a hammer, every problem is a nail....right? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LinuxUsers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
