Strange. I spent years switching back and forth between Linux and Windows. I'd go to Linux because it was easy to develop on, software is always being updated, so no waiting for the "next version, coming real soon now". Would have fun and tweak my system to my heart's content, wasting mucho time in the process.
Then next there was always a nagging feeling. Somehow there weren't enough apps. I mean things you could just use without hassling over the details like font hinting in freetype and their bloody patented algorithm. Or downloading Bitstream Vera so that I could get a good quality font experience. Am not typical at all. I never use word processors, spreadsheets and the like. Rarely, maybe a letter, or a presentation. Rarely. Very rarely. A good web browser is now standard. Ditto email. Ditto chat. Many choices. Most more than capable. So what do you really get on Linux then? You have full control. And applications that feel like they are not yet quite done, but are a work forever in progress. Wine comes to mind immediately. After a while of this, I would reformat and install Windows and get all the little, tiny plenty applications that I could have. It's fine for a day or so. Then it just starts getting slow. Annoying things always want to popup. The computer always wants to "help" me. You never feel right because you wonder if you have been hacked, even with all your layers of voodoo defense. You realize that the applications have all these little annoyance. Everytime you want to save or open a file you have to go through some really shitty dialog box that doesn't really do anything but get in your way and offer too many ways to do things, that you have to waste time even deciding. Or stupid little repetitive actions such as keep on clicking until you get to where you want to. It makes no sense, because it is Frankenstein, stitched together by an army of drones deep inside the Borg colony. Eventually, I get disgusted and reformat to move to a nice clean fast stable Linux. Switching to OS X ended all of these problems for me. I have the decent, polished (better than Windows applications overall) applications and end user experience. Things just work. No endless tweaking. With a full Unix underneath, a few quirks here and there, but not command.com, we have bash, we have unix userland, we have a ports collection similar to BSD. There's X if you want it, but no one really likes it compared to the native apps. More people will switch as Linux gets better, but for now, OS X is very far ahead in terms of the user experience. Now, if only we could have OS X running on top of the Linux kernel, all would be perfect. The Solaris kernel and userland, that could be even better, maybe more interesting since Solaris has waaaaay more features than Linux. But last is what's the need and point of switching when you can wait a few months, or even buy the right hardware now and run all these systems under a hypervisor? Virtualization is here. Why switch any longer? You can have it all ... So the way I understand it is they are just making a statement, going on an adventure and they will be gone for a long while. If OS X gets enough better, they will surely switch back. If Linux gets enough better, I'll probably switch again ... -- G. On 7/4/06, Paul Bagyenda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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