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Penguin2Apple
Dark Paladin writes: "What happens when a Linux lover takes the plunge into a Mac for the first time in his life? Turns out he falls in love, to the point of abandoning Linux and taking up OS X full time. Read about the conversion in Penguin2Apple. And pray for mercy on his soul."
Interesting .. he mentions that after a Windows 2000 crash, the system wouldn't even power up. That sounds a LOT like a hardware issue, rather than a software problem. Windows isn't perfect (or even close), and sure, it crashes (tho Win2k/XP does so less than their predecessors ever did) but I have never had any machine crash on me so badly it wouldn't power up because the OS or some driver messed up. Sounds like he has a stick of bad RAM in his Windows box or something.
Anyway, while his article raises some good points, about 50% seems to be a huge advertisment for MacOS X, with lots of little screenies of all the features he says he's using, or not using. It got boring reading about after a bit.
Also, the site seems to have suffered from the slashdot effect already (web servers, they don't make'em like they used to), so for those of you who haven't read the article yet, here's a quick summary: "Used DOS, used Windows, it crashes all the time, boo hoo, Microsoft sucks, Linux is good but isn't what I want either, I read about MacOS X, love on first sight, MacOS rocks! MacOS rocks! MacOS rocks!, the end". That's about it, really.
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