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Like I said: Ride what you like; like what you ride. I can definitely see why some people would like Linux better as a development environment. I can see why so
by TJensen 17y ago
Like I said: Ride what you like; like what you ride. I can definitely see why some people would like Linux better as a development environment. I can see why some people would like OS X better. Believe it or not, I can even see why some people would like Windows better (but I have to stretch really hard :).
However, your central argument seemed to be "if you've used Linux since 1994, you would never find OS X better than Linux." I wanted to provide a counter-point that, in fact, it was possible to use Linux since before 1994 and still prefer OS X.
I'm still hoping for the day that I can have the same experience on Linux that I get on OS X. One interesting observation is that I seemed to be able to handle it better when the experience was 75% than when it is 90%.
Perhaps it is like human robots: the closer they get to being human, the creepier they get. :) Perhaps the closer Linux gets (without being there), the more I notice what's not right about it.
For anybody who isn't sure whether to go OS X or Linux, I'd certainly try Linux first.
- etherael 17y agoI need to be less wordy. My central argument was supposed to be that when you've spent the time to develop the skills necessary to use Linux as a platform to the point where the advantages of the OS X platform are invisible and the deficiencies are glaringly apparent, you're not going to prefer OS X, despite the fact that it's still perfectly fine for a whole ton of people.
- rbanffy 17y agoYou summed it up pretty well, but I would put it slightly differently: there is a point where the characteristics of OSX are no longer an advantage, but a hindrance, the same way as the characteristics of a more traditional Unix (or Linux) are a problem for those who are more used to OSX or Windows. There is a time you have to get rid of the training wheels.