On AD 2008 January 18 Friday 10:50:04 PM -0700, Alex Esplin wrote: > You probably don't need to read this, because you hear it fairly often > at work, but I'd go with the MacBook. Now that Leopard has given us a > decent terminal, my Mac for all intents and purposes acts like my > Linux box, but with lots of added benefits. And after watching me > torture test some of the newer Macs we've gotten in the office, I > don't think that speed is going to be an issue.
It is interesting you say this. My experience is exactly opposite. Linux does all I want and more (in the way I want it to) whereas Macs aren't as fun/easy to use. The concept of a distro with updates and a universe of packages seems to be a Linux-only concept even in 2008. Macs may have updates but you have to pay for them. Besides that, every time I use a Mac it always feels like (certainly less so than a Windows machine) I'm being forced into how Apple wants me to use a computer rather than how I want to use the computer. Linux distros let me do that. It may seem that I have very narrow computing requirements, but part of the reason for this is that 6 years ago I decided I'd never rely on proprietary software ever again. That may have temporarily cut down on my productivity or space of software to choose from but now that I look back I haven't missed much. I was willing to shift a fundamental paradigm and it turned out to be educational and very rewarding. Justin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
