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Confessions of a Mac OS X User
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?"
have you ever felt guilty over using Mac OS X instead of Linux?
You'll have to ask my ex-wife; she took the Mac.
Trolling is a art,
iDidn't do it.
It's pretty far down on the things I feel guilty about. I'm a middle-class white American male, you insensitive clod!
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no.
I fell guilty about using Windows XP.... opps, sorry wrong subject.
-B
Heh, at least its not a bomb with burning wick and the message "an error has occured [ok]".
Sometimes I feel guilty about doing some work, while I am trying to read Slashdot.
Don't feel guilty. In fact, you should go by the unspoken Apple mantra that those of us who use OS X are better than everyone else.
This post is more right because it was posted from OS X.
I think that he is going to try to load Linux on his Power Book. That's a followup story I'd like to see! I don't know if it is possiable, but he seemed to have trouble getting an wireless card running....
The grass is only greener, if you don't take care of your own lawn.
Ask RMS that question... but bring a pillow.
True story.
A couple years back my uncle wore some lousy Apple t-shirt when he was fixing his car. He got more sh*t from random people than yankees fan in boston.
Ever since then my uncle gets extremely embarrassed when he mentions he's a mac user. He just doesn't know what to expect next.
Why would iFeel guilty about using OSX? I'm a new PowerBook owner and iFeel having a nice UNIX/BSD/Whatever core under my iHood is a feature. Linux is, as many have stated, not ready for mass desktop usage (though iDisagree, with the latest KDE builds...) so running OSX gives me a system my iFriends, my iMother, my iCoworkers, etc. are more comfortable using while it is secure, powerful, and pretty. That review of BSD yesterday said just that, "Greater server, but the desktop is lacking." OSX gives us Aqua, which solves the desktop problem.
Now, some people will say that using OSX and Apple hardware brainwashes people into supporting Apple blindly. That is not the case. iLove Apple. They have never done anything that iDislike and iHave never noticed any kind of subliminal messages. iLove Apple. iPlan to upgrade and iPlan to stick with this company. iCal tells me to...
"Life's funny sometimes." "And sometimes it isn't." --Cat's Cradle
Sometimes, when my wife has gone to bed, I stay up late at night with OS X. And when I'm certain everyone in the house is asleep, I go in the office, lock the door, and ... well... I do things. I really put OS X through all the paces.
Sometimes I take extra long showers and my wife bangs on the door telling me to hurry up, but really I'm just in the bathroom with OS X. It's not easy to resist it. Sometimes the urges just overwhelm me.
Once, I with OS X in my car and parked in this little out of the way park. I figured it'd just take a minute and I need some relief, and just as I was starting to use OS X some cops pulled up...
I've used a number of operating systems over the years and while Linux is where I spend more of my time anymore I can't see any reason to feel guilty over using something else if it did the job better and that includes keeping me entertained, which Linux does better than anything else. Who needs games when I've got prism54 drivers to get working?
Seriously though, if you feel guilt for the OS of your choice on top of already being a fucking nerd, you're a fucking loser and you need to never, ever touch a computer again. I haven't even read the article but just the thought of guilt setting in over this shit...? Please, email me your address so I can take a 2x4 to all your hardware and then to you.
Guilty? Nah... I have the opposite problem.
"....windows XP professional help"
-- anonymous sales rep
LOL, how very true. But just think, every /. reader would read the same ten articles (9 of which are +1 Funny -- but not really), skip the rest be bored for the rest of their lunch/evening and maybe do something else. It'd be the fall of /., therefore it will never happen.
./LookLikeImWorking.sh... [yells]COMING!!!... ok, there... [answers door]"
Anyway, to remain slightly on topic... While I've never used OSX, I would think that someone who agonizes over what OS their using has more to worry about than just computer stuff. I can see it now, "Ooooh, I love OS Y, but I really should be using X. Gosh, the joy I get from using Y is almost eclipsed by the agony of neglecting my beloved X. Is this guilt normal? Maybe I should go see Dr. Petres... Shh! Did someone knock? Quickly, quickly! Reboot, select Linux...
how could I feel guilty about OS X? ok, it's gross that icons wiggle and pop up when you click them, that the iBook itself looks like a jelly bean, and that sometimes the running iChat man makes me laugh...but some of us like computers to seem happy :). (why else do you think emoticons were invented?)
Unspoken?? We generally say it loud and clear!
I wake up in the middle of the night crying.. knowing that i use photoshop, dreamweaver, office and many other wonderfull programs on my unix box. I feel horrible that my favorite OS is supported by hardware manufacturers and works seamlessly with windows PCs but i dont have all the issues of a windows user..
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
So you are saying you can't take an industry standard laptop drive from a Dell laptop and drop it into the industry standard laptop slot of an IBM thinkpad?
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
What has this World come to. First a religious rant that actually goes against Apple and now an iBook owner that actually comes back from the dead to defend Apple.
It's like being taken hostage initially against your will, then realizing your captors are the Swedish Bikini Team.
Everyone in the office was coming over to slobber over it...
;)
I think I know what the problem was.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
What if having repeated Mac problems you decide you want to find another vendor? If I get sick of Dell then I can try IBM, HP/Compaq, Alienware, or even build one myself. If I get sick of Apple I can pretty much go fuck myself.
That sounds like a testament to Dell's ability to piss people off.
> have you ever felt guilty over using Mac OS X
> instead of Linux?
Confessions? Guilt?
What is this, a Catholic group-therapy site?
More like Mac NOSeX...
sin(6cos(r)+5A)
...or maybe he just takes the word "boot" a little too literally.
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
Nope. I feel smug, just like the rest of my cult... err... community
-- "At Microsoft, quality is job 1.1" -- PC Magazine, Nov. 1994
When I boot up my Mac OS
It's always with a sense of shame
I've always been the one to blame
Linux is what I long to do
But everything I really choose
Has one thing in common, too
Chorus:
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin
It's a sin
Every app I've ever run
Everything I ever do
Every game I've ever played
Everywhere site I'm going to
It's a sin
And Slashdot taught me how to be
A Linux God, and very l337
They didn't quite succeed
Linux is what I long to do
But everything I really choose
Has one thing in common, too
(Chorus)
Linus, forgive me, I tried not to do it
Burned a Knoppix CD, then I ignored it
Whatever you taught me, it didn't compile
Linus, you got me a brand new OS
But I still don't understand
So I boot up my Mac OS
Forever with a sense of shame
And I'm the one to blame
Linux is what I long to do
But everything I really choose
Has one thing in common, too
(Chorus)
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin
What? Why would I be using Linux on my laptop? I'm not a masochist.
"Politicians find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the people."
I'm feeling terribly guilty.
..Sigh..
Knock yourself out you horrible linux user you.
...trying some reverse psychology here, aiming for guilt, revulsion and a subconscious unnatural urge to play with his erm... garageband)
I think, therefore I am...I think.