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Well if i can get cygwin to work properly i get a UNIX++(an octopus made by...). As for linux, the only hardware problems I've had was with my printer, and sinc

Well if i can get cygwin to work properly i get a UNIX++(an octopus made by...). As for linux, the only hardware problems I've had was with my printer, and since the only non-windows drivers were 2 RPM's i doubt that mac OS X would magically solve that problem. And here is my really awesome opinion, i understand all the hype around OS X, its new, its cool, and it gets you laid(well, that youtube video said so, so it must be true). Lets just forget about the company logo that stays on you laptop. Is their really any real advantage that macs have to linux? One would say better graphic design. My KDE desktop looks pretty enough, i've spent years in xp, so KDE looks great to me. Next is usability. Well, after i tweak my KDE desktop a little i get all the usability i need, i do all the things that i want to do. OK what else does OS X have that linux doesn't? It has better apps. OK, that might be true. I don't know how many apps OS X has, but if they are close to 16000, how do you expect them all to be as good, as the best. windows has the same problem, too many apps, when OS X gets popular enough we will see a big amount of bad apps. So, what do we see? I don't need a mac, linux is good enough. OK, is this the blub OS paradox?

unalone 18y ago
OS X is more usable: it's got a very wide set of features, and they're each extremely polished and designed to be fast and stay out of your way - unlike many of their Linux counterparts. Mac developers are regarded as among the best out there. Look at Adium vs. Pidgin: the one is a much better-designed product. Although, of course, iChat's pretty excellent to begin with. That's one example out of hundreds: I've found that whenever I need something done on a Mac, there's an app that does it superbly. You're allowed to not use a Mac, and nobody here would pressure you into getting one. But don't make statements when you have no clue what you're talking about. I wouldn't profess to make statements about more involved variants of Linux, because I at least know that I know next to nothing.
jshen 18y ago
the problem with linux is that you spend a good amount of time tweaking it to get 80% of the usability of a mac. When I used ubuntu full time for 2 years I twice had to spend close to a full day getting my sound to work again after I did an apt-get upgrade. Copy and paste didn't always work between apps. There is no photoshop. Flash was buggy on linux back then (i have no idea if it is now) and I had to reinstall flash a few times after updating firefox. There isn't any major thing one can point to with linux and say "that is the problem". Instead it's a long list of issues that suck time and ultimately productivity.
jshen 18y ago
oh, and cygwin is a superficial and leaky abstraction .

unalone 18y ago

OS X is more usable: it's got a very wide set of features, and they're each extremely polished and designed to be fast and stay out of your way - unlike many of their Linux counterparts. Mac developers are regarded as among the best out there. Look at Adium vs. Pidgin: the one is a much better-designed product. Although, of course, iChat's pretty excellent to begin with. That's one example out of hundreds: I've found that whenever I need something done on a Mac, there's an app that does it superbly. You're allowed to not use a Mac, and nobody here would pressure you into getting one. But don't make statements when you have no clue what you're talking about. I wouldn't profess to make statements about more involved variants of Linux, because I at least know that I know next to nothing.

jshen 18y ago

the problem with linux is that you spend a good amount of time tweaking it to get 80% of the usability of a mac. When I used ubuntu full time for 2 years I twice had to spend close to a full day getting my sound to work again after I did an apt-get upgrade. Copy and paste didn't always work between apps. There is no photoshop. Flash was buggy on linux back then (i have no idea if it is now) and I had to reinstall flash a few times after updating firefox. There isn't any major thing one can point to with linux and say "that is the problem". Instead it's a long list of issues that suck time and ultimately productivity.

jshen 18y ago

oh, and cygwin is a superficial and leaky abstraction .