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> why not built a far more powerful and cheaper hackintosh Because I have better things to do with my time than assemble a poor substitute for a cohesive just-
by nknighthb 13y ago
> why not built a far more powerful and cheaper hackintosh
Because I have better things to do with my time than assemble a poor substitute for a cohesive just-works experience.
> what software is there for mac OS that there is a not an equivalent to for linux or windows
As a developer, most of the exact same software I use every day on OS X runs on Linux just fine. And yet, Linux doesn't provide me with a good user experience, and it doesn't just work[1].
But fundamentally, you are just mad because other people like something you don't. Dwell on that for a while.
[1] If you're going to try and argue with me about how great Ubuntu or Mint or whatever else are these days, let me save you the time: You're wrong, and there is absolutely nothing at all that you can say that will convince me otherwise, because I do use them, but they continue to fail me as primary desktops. Your words conflict with reality, and more words won't change that.
- KaiserPro 13y agoLinux is grand if you have a sysadmin to set it up for you. otherwise, it's going to take a while.
- PommeDeTerre 13y agoThat might've been true in the mid-1990s, but the various modern Linux distributions are quite straightforward to install, especially if it'll be the only OS running on the system.
- KaiserPro 13y agoNot if you have a large infrastructure to integrate it into. Sadly we have to triple boot (win 7, RHEL5 & RHEL6) I'm a sysadmin and I make things just about bearable for my users. I install VLC, gitk, flash and chrome. I make sure that the email client is setup and talking to ldap/AD. Granted we use RHEL5/6, so there is a lot of work for me to do to make things nice for them. However RHEL/centos/SL whilst old and not trendy is a loverly slow moving target for our customers to jump onto. Granted mint and the like make installation easy, but integration is still hard.
- nknighthb 13y agoIf you have a "sysadmin to set it up for you", that probably means you have a standardized environment, and the developer won't have root. This cripples developer productivity.