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Do you actually have any real experience (on the order of months) using the other systems, or is this an ideological position?

etherael 16y ago
I've spent multiple months, never more than one at a time, on windows due to having to have access to some locked in infrastructure at an employer or somesuch and virtualisation not being practical at the time but I eventually got so frustrated with it I just ended up working around it. OS X forced myself to use for one month, hated it more than windows.
- houseabsolute 16y ago
  > forced myself to use . . . Sounds like your mind was already made up. Whatever works for you I guess.
  - etherael 16y ago
    On the contrary, I forced myself to use it because I am well aware that even now, linux is not perfect. and back when I forced myself to try out OS X it was a fair bit less perfect still, Case in point, it was not a flawless install on this notebook I am currently using it on, I had to fiddle and experiment and google to get the video settings just right because the internal hardware is by no means standard (two video cards, one for high power low battery life, one the other way around). Things like that I frankly don't want to have to deal with and if I could have the power of Linux with someone else handling setup for me so it all "just works" as Apple afficionados are so found of saying; I'd be all over it. I was even prepared to sacrifice some of that power so I wouldn't have to deal with it. But at the end of the day it simply did not cut the mustard. Mouse acceleration curve was infuriatingly bad, the interface was bland and ugly to the point of distraction, I hated the iconoclastic keyboard layout seemingly designed just to show the rest of the world how smart Apple is for putting the control key near the space bar. There was at the time no way to get the functionality offered by the compiz grid plugin, nor GL zoom, nor the multitude of plugins I make use of in various linux programs all the time, and the spaces implementation was clunky by comparison to the compiz based version of the same. And all to boot I was ticked off at having to pay Apple to cripple me in all of the above fashions and accept an inferior CPU/memory/hdd to boot.

etherael 16y ago

I've spent multiple months, never more than one at a time, on windows due to having to have access to some locked in infrastructure at an employer or somesuch and virtualisation not being practical at the time but I eventually got so frustrated with it I just ended up working around it. OS X forced myself to use for one month, hated it more than windows.

houseabsolute 16y ago
> forced myself to use . . . Sounds like your mind was already made up. Whatever works for you I guess.
- etherael 16y ago
  On the contrary, I forced myself to use it because I am well aware that even now, linux is not perfect. and back when I forced myself to try out OS X it was a fair bit less perfect still, Case in point, it was not a flawless install on this notebook I am currently using it on, I had to fiddle and experiment and google to get the video settings just right because the internal hardware is by no means standard (two video cards, one for high power low battery life, one the other way around). Things like that I frankly don't want to have to deal with and if I could have the power of Linux with someone else handling setup for me so it all "just works" as Apple afficionados are so found of saying; I'd be all over it. I was even prepared to sacrifice some of that power so I wouldn't have to deal with it. But at the end of the day it simply did not cut the mustard. Mouse acceleration curve was infuriatingly bad, the interface was bland and ugly to the point of distraction, I hated the iconoclastic keyboard layout seemingly designed just to show the rest of the world how smart Apple is for putting the control key near the space bar. There was at the time no way to get the functionality offered by the compiz grid plugin, nor GL zoom, nor the multitude of plugins I make use of in various linux programs all the time, and the spaces implementation was clunky by comparison to the compiz based version of the same. And all to boot I was ticked off at having to pay Apple to cripple me in all of the above fashions and accept an inferior CPU/memory/hdd to boot.