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Penguin2Apple

Posted by michael on from the you-don't-know-the-power-of-the-dark-side dept.

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."

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  1. And this is breaking news because.... ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh. You found it. Bully for you.

    1. Re:And this is breaking news because.... ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      If I must see an advertisement, why can't I be off topic?

      Perhaps we should be allowed to assign a relevance or weight to these stories that get posted; I like the signal to noise ratio graphics on the site they want to suppress. But that doesn't really go far enough.

      So many stories are either lame, outdated, irrelevant, not news, etcetera, that we need some way of META moderating the rating of the story itself, so that we can view more relevant stories. (Or should we just browse elsewhere?)

  2. !st post? by littlerubberfeet · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wow did i finally get one?

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    1. Re:!st post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No I claimed it. But I did it as AC, so I can't put it on my resume.

      Oh, the horror.

  3. Sad day ... Stephen King dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

    1. Re:Sad day ... Stephen King dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I know it's a trusty old saw, but perhaps something new is in order? A plausible Bill Gates blurb perhaps?

      Or doctored pics of Taco's wedding night cam...

    2. Re:Sad day ... Stephen King dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      >I know it's a trusty old saw, but perhaps something new is in order?


      Yuppity-yup. Why not try a "Reagan dead" Troll? Hell, who wouldn't believe it at this point.

  4. Aaaargh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Blasphemy!

  5. the troll of them all! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Unix is the single OS that proves that stupidity and inertia are the most powerful forces on earth.
    steve is an idiot, rob multda is a pervert!

    cowboyneal can read this: http://cmdrtaco.net/yada/cowboyneal.ornot/

  6. Broken computer by W2k · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    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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  7. Dude.... by Convergence · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If an IPOD is the sexiest thing you've ever held in your hand, you *NEED* a life.. My god; I never thought I'd meet someone with less of a life than me! :)