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Apple and Linux Beneficial to Each Other?

Posted by pudge on from the cats-and-dogs-living-together dept.

viewstyle writes "There is an interesting commentary on eWEEK discussing the 'synergies' between Apple and Linux after visiting LinuxWorld. It makes a good point that advancement of Linux is good for Mac OS X and vice versa, because of the ease of porting across the platforms (soon to get easier with the X11 on Mac OS X)." Next thing you know, most of the Slashdot editors and programmers will be using Macs ...

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  1. Wrong. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    MS Office would just incorporate the new format. Cash registers still would ring.

  2. "Before you know... slashdotters will use Macs" by CmdrWass · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You won't see me own a mac until the day comes that they open the hardware standards and there is good competition for hardware. In other words, until I can build a mac from spare parts, you won't see me owning one.

  3. Re:Enlightenment by Querty · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeah, and that's one of the attitudes that keeps me far away from Macs.

    <rant style="frustration-level: deep">

    Macs have been torture to use, more so that any other platform I've ever worked on:

    • "An error of type 1 has occured" no memory protection until OSX. What were they thinking? Losing your work is very user friendly
    • To eject/umount a disk, drag it to the trash! I've seen Human Computer Interaction "experts" trying to defend this as good design. Talk about tortured logic...
    • Have you ever tried using that hockey puck iMac mouse? RSI within a week, I promise!
    • Good interface design goes deep, I agree. Somebody go out and shoot the Quicktime player designers. In fact, any of those "brushed metal" interfaces are monsters!
    • Two words: "Apple keyboards". I celebrate the birthday of my IBM M-Series keyboard, thanking the higher powers I don't have to kill my hands on a Mac keyboard.
    • Floppy disks. Somtimes the Mac will spit it out, sometimes it will fail to recognise the floppy at all (hello paperclip), sometimes it will not recognise the format any more. No wonder they abandoned floppies; they couldn't make them work.
    I could go on and on, but you get the picture... I'm not claiming Gnome (2.2) and KDE (3.1) are perfect, but the ****** arrogance of Mac users is soooooo annoying (and largely unfounded).

    The Mac has made me throw my hands up in disgust and disbelief more times than I care to remember. How many times I've heard Mac users say "Of course it crashes, you're trying to do way too many things at once...", when all I'm doing is having a few browser windows open, a text editor and an MP3 player.

    </rant>

    In the end, I'll not use a Mac because I'm not using a non-free (as in speech) OS. For this I have my own motivations. The snobbish arrogance of Mac users, however, just keeps on surprising me each time.