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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. I feel more guilty using Windows by YllabianBitPipe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I feel more guilty using Windows.

  2. Acrobat!? by ProfessionalCookie · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Huh? I assume you have found thePreview application and used it? You are a Sun/Solaris admin and you just replaced my good old Blade 100 with a G5 and you haven't tried preview for pdfs. Anymore using Acrobat makes me feel like I've been doing Acrobatics. Use Preview, it's faster and better.

  3. Re:LINUX! by trouser · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sure it does. I use Gnome on my Linux box and OS X on my G4. On both systems I run a whole bunch of apps in these little window things that I can move and resize. I can drag and drop and copy and paste and all that good stuff.

    With Aqua everything looks wet and moves very slowly. On Gnome everything looks like whatever theme I've selected and moves very quickly even though the machine has half the grunt of the OS X box.

    Gnome and KDE are both fantastic desktop environments and with the wealth of applications available for both there's really no reason not to use Linux on the desktop unless you happen to have a specific proprietary app you can't live with out (eg. Photoshop).

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    Now wash your hands.