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> If your decision is based purely on aesthetics, given enough time, I'm sure you can find a GUI for Linux that you like more than OSX. People choose OS X beca
by Osmium 13y ago
> If your decision is based purely on aesthetics, given enough time, I'm sure you can find a GUI for Linux that you like more than OSX.
People choose OS X because of its design though, not because of its aesthetics. "You can't put lipstick on a pig" and all that. The trouble with Linux is that there's no consistency in UIs between various apps, and skinning just makes things even less consistent.
I'm in your scientific computing category, and I'm using OS X as my main machine right now--my only complaints are the occasional missing package from Homebrew. I suspect I might prefer Ubuntu in that regard.
- samatman 13y agoIn all seriousness, if it's just an occasional missing package, consider adding it to Homebrew. It's a relatively painless process and adds a tool to everyone's working palette. This is a mitzvah. If that was a polite way of saying "many missing packages", that's a different story.
- Osmium 13y agoI agree, and I'm trying :) So far it's just been two packages, one of which has since been added (not by myself) and one is still presenting problems, but it's always a pain struggling to compile something knowing that it's a simple apt-get away on Ubuntu.