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A once asked a professor of mine why he used Mac OS X instead of Linux. He said to me "Linux is free, so long as your time is.". I think that really gets the
by vital101 16y ago
A once asked a professor of mine why he used Mac OS X instead of Linux. He said to me "Linux is free, so long as your time is.".
I think that really gets the point across. While Ubuntu and a few others have made great strides in getting things to "just work", OS X is still the king in that regard.
- foljs 16y agoNow, I hope your professor didn't try to pass that quote as his. It's an old saying, most frequently encountered as "Linux is free, as long as your time is worthless".
- vital101 16y agoNo, he didn't. He said it as "As the saying goes...".
- lukeschlather 16y agoNot really for a developer. The only thing that 'just works' compared to Ubuntu is that Emacs is installed in the default configuration. Ubuntu is what enables me to quickly resolve random annoyances and just work.
- weavejester 16y agoWhile Ubuntu and a few others have made great strides in getting things to "just work", OS X is still the king in that regard. This rather depends on what you want to do. I use both Mac OSX and Ubuntu Linux for development, and I generally spend more time messing around with installations on OSX than I do on Ubuntu. Macports is rather good, but it's not as integrated with the OS as Apt is for Ubuntu. Installing a package in Ubuntu is generally quicker and comes with more sensible defaults. Daemons are started automatically, and things tend to run straight off the bat. OSX sometimes requires some fiddling to get things to work correctly.