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Confessions of a Mac OS X User

Posted by pudge on from the guilt-is-for-the-weak dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Here's an interesting commentary on OSDir.com about one Mac OS X user's guilt over using it instead of Linux on his laptop, and how he's been burned by the dreaded iBook logic board problems so much that it underlines the tyranny of hardware vendor lock-in: it's not that Mac OS X isn't F/OSS, but that it only runs on Apple hardware. It also raises the obvious question: have you ever felt guilty over using Mac OS X instead of Linux?"

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  1. -1 Troll by l1_wulf · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Christ, I wish I could mod the original article -1 Troll.

    This has to be one of the more useless articles I've read on /.

  2. Have I ever felt guilty using Mac OSX ? by 1010011010 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ehhh, no. I love OS X.

    I've felt bad about using WINDOWS, though. I don't see an Ask Slashdot about that.

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  3. Call it a canard, but... by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    have you ever felt guilty over using Mac OS X instead of Linux?

    Not since realizing that you get what you pay for.

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  4. Re:Don't ask me.. by madpierre · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A Mac zealot admitting guilt about *gasp* using a Mac.

    *WOW* whooop de do dah !!!!!

    It's official. Hell has frozen over.
    Pigs are preforming aerial acrobatics.
    Darl McBride has stopped smokin crack.

    What next? RMS admits to using Vi when nobodys looking.

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  5. Re:Vender lock in by RedHat+Rocky · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In case you didn't notice, most folks consider Windows the more evil option than OS X. Try going DOWN the scale, to Linux, *BSD and friends.

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