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(When) Will Linux Pass Apple On The Desktop?
EisPick writes "A column posted today on Slate ponders projections that Linux PCs will pass Apple in desktop market share next year. Will Linux do to OS X what it already has done to Tru64, Irix, HP/UX, AIX and Solaris and emerge as the only viable competitor to Windows on the desktop?"
oh yea it will happen... I already see it as better in so many areas... I mean the new mac os is just a gui for unix... so why not...
Seriously. As long as Windows beats them both to a bloody pulp on the desktop, it doesn't matter.
I wouldn't run Linux if you paid me. I use BSD, and MacOS only (and MacOS only at work). I'd be forced to hurt you if you sugguested that I run Windows. ;-)
(note: doesn't count for smart-ass slashdot comments)
Ithink their pre-installed Macs is a good job to help converting OSX fanatics back to reality :)
Less is more !
And GNU/Shasldot is owned by a GNU/Linux supported company. I guess that measn the GNU/Slashdot spin and your GNU/opinions are just as worthless then.
Apple provides an experience to the end user.
Apple studies the user experience from the on switch to the way the windowing system reacts to different types of input. Apple is the Ferrari of computer Systems.
Thanks for your "insight", Apple employee.
- Apple introduced preemptive multitasking much later than Micro$oft.
- Apple insists on the "one-mouse" button, which the inventor of the mouse, Doug Engelbart, calls an "arrogant" decision. For engineenering purposes, mice should have two to three buttons, not one. Apple breaks this rule by having the user's other hand use the butterly CONTROL key on the keyboard as the 2nd and 3rd buttons. This is more inconvenient to users. (So much for the "end user experience.")
- The "Cube" was a failure because its crystal clear acrylic case would crack during shipping, and hence was discontinued.
- Jean Louis Gassee's idea of "networking" the Mac was by using a modem over a serial port! (Read Jim Carlton's "Apple: the Inside Story").
- Steven Levy, author of "Insanely Great" (a book on the history of the Macintosh) admits in the preface that his Apple Mac crashed on him several times whilst he was writing the book! (So much for the "end user experience.")
- The first Macintosh did not have a hard drive because Jobs didn't want the noise of the hard drive to detract from the aesthetic appeal of the machine. Thus, not many Macintoshes were sold to businesses, which absoluately required the extra storage space. (So much for the "end user experience.")
- The Newton was a failure.
- Pippen was a failure.
- Taligent was a failure.
- OS-X/Unix introduces timing problems for MIDI musicians. Better stick with an older version of the software.
- Apple is not known for its servers.
- Apple is not widely used in scientific computing.
- Apple is not widely used in business for email, inventory control, financial analysis, etc.
Apple appeals to superficial ("my pink hair defines me") artsy-fartsy on-the-fringe kind of people, and it is lucky that enough of those people exist to keep them in business. If Apple were "mainstream", those people would migrate to some other non-mainstream product to define their "individuality" and satisfy their fragile egos.
"...I love my Linux desktop because *I*, not Steve J or Bill G, am in charge" ROTFLMAO!!!! You're dreaming. Torvalds and Stallman have the final word. As Linus himself is quoted as saying: "...my contract says that I have final word on the kernel, and the copyright remains with me personally" Wanna make some kernel changes...you MUST release them to the world. Real men use FreeBSD. Period.
Dear Apple,
I am a homosexual. I bought an Apple computer because of its well earned reputation for being "the" gay computer. Since I have become an Apple owner, I have been exposed to a whole new world of gay friends. It is really a pleasure to meet and compute with other homos such as myself. I plan on using my new Apple computer as a way to entice and recruit young schoolboys into the homosexual lifestyle; it would be so helpful if you could produce more software which would appeal to young boys. Thanks in advance.
with much gayness,
Father Randy "Pudge" O'Day, S.J.
Mod down people who tell people how to mod in their sigs
I can run GNome on a Mac via X11.
Being able to run GNOME is not the best example of having the ability to change things to your liking. GNOME has become disturbingly limited lately.
I want my Cowboyneal
I'm referring to all the neat things you can do in something like KDE, that actually let you work better, not just have a prettier desktop.
Well don't keep them all to yourself. Tell us about these wonderful innovations?
Animated backgrounds? Themes? Dancing happy smiley faces?
Linux is to the desktop what rice boys are to race cars.