>Financial factor: No. Very pocket unfriendly. And now that MACOSX runs on the intel platform When are we getting that pirated version so we can get the feel on our good ole Intel boxes ??? Apples 4 free what a nice thought !
Henry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hari Kurup Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 12:30 PM To: Linux Users Group Uganda Subject: Re: [LUG] Switching back to Ubuntu... The verdict according to moi:- Usability factor: Yes. very user friendly. Financial factor: No. Very pocket unfriendly. PS: i use an iMac but only because the company bought it :-) -- Hari Kurup On Jul 7, 2006, at 9:28 AM, Paul Bagyenda wrote: > At last, a well-considered opinion! > > Seriously, who has the time to tweak around with their computer? > Sure when one was younger (15-18 may be) and still found such > things interesting. But now? No way. Far more interesting things to > be doing with the PC than to be tweaking settings. > > I think Linux is "getting there" but the reasons "switching back > to Ubuntu" are dubious at best. > > When Linux gives me: > > - An Office Suite to match MS Office for Mac (no, Open Office is > not quite there yet) > - A desktop/command line integration that is as well-thoughout as > that of OSX > - Google in the box (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/spotlight/) > - The minimalism-with-power that I get with Safari & Apple Mail (to > name but a few) > - Virtualisation in the box (rumoured in next release to replace > BootCamp, but already possible) so I don't need to dual boot. > > Then I might switch back. Linux server? Yes please. Linux desktop? > Not yet. > > P. > > On Jul 06, 2006, at 13:18, Guido Sohne wrote: > >> 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: >>> >>> >>> >>> http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/06/ >>> ubuntu_linux_a_threat_to_mac_o.html >>> >>> "If I were Apple, I'd be worried about this. 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