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Jamie Zawinski Switches to Mac OS X
iskander writes "After a disappointing experience with sound, Jamie Zawinski has finally given up on desktop Linux and switched to Mac OS X. The future of apps like xscreensaver and Gronk is now ``highly ambiguous''. He has already ditched a free/open platform before, but he seems a lot angrier this time. Indeed, twisted by the Dark Side of the Source, young Zawinski has become."
and why should i care what OS he is running ?
maybe i should submit a story about what OS my neighbour runs, or perhaps his brother and wife
Dear Slashdot: please don't post about this. Screw you guys.
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So someone is switching to OS-X? So what?? And this made the frontpage news? May I ask why? Is it happening so rarely that when one person makes the switch to OS-X it is a front page news?
You got your LiveJournal linked on the front page of Slashdot. Now get your butt upstairs, Mom needs help with the dishes!
.. it DIDN'T go "beep beep beep".
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1. Short timeout for writing passwords, what may make it difficult for some people to unlock the screen at all.
2. Stupid, delaying messages after entering the wrong password, as if the security delay by the authorization system was not enough.
3. Ugly, ugly, *ugly* logo.
4. Small, non-antialiased fonts in the password dialog, as if the screen space was so scarce when all other windows are hidden anyway.
Dear CNN: please don't report this. Screw you guys.
Patrick Doyle
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I've had it with these complicated operating systems. I've never gotten my printer to work correctly on Linux, my Mac is just a total pain in the ass and slug, and I spend hours upon hours trying to do the easiest things on Windows.
The hell with all of you. I just installed DOS on my box and all is well.
Slashdot, please don't post this. You guys are jerks and I'm going to tell my mommy about you.
Yeah, I'm as old as my UID would suggest.
With Linus using a Powermac for his development, you can't help but wonder if he secretly uses OS X now and then ... you know to run Photoshop and stuff. Now that jwz and all the cool kids are making the switch, it could only be a matter of time...
you run fucking *GENTOO*?!?!?!? you bitch about tweaking and you run *GENTOO*?!?!? and a Pentium MMX no less... here's a clue, for your next computer, buy some moderately modern hardware with a halfway decent linux distro.
Hey, this whole article is "One man abandoned an operating system, so I guess that OS really sucks now." How much scientific thought did you expect?
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Sounds like a precondition, not a postcondition.
deus does not exist but if he does
I think what he meant by saying that was, "Oh fuck, you're right...you didn't say that. But I can't admit that I was wrong, and was blinded by my Linux fanboy tendencies, so I'll extrapolate as much I can out of your ACTUAL words, and pretend that I was right all along"
... do you remember where you were when you first heard the news?
They'll nod solemnly, and in reverent tones, tell with precise detail where they were when they learned that Jamie Zawinski had switched to OS X.
I have hereby removed Linux from my hard drive and have replaced it with FreeBSD. That is all.
The best part is how the Linux community is banding together to investigate why someone (anyone; I know a lot of Linux folks moving to Mac OS X) would dump their OS in favour of a BSD variant. And how they're totally not burning bridges to lure folks back!
- chrish
Its a good thing he didn't try to copy and paste any meaningful information between apps (or even on the same app) on Linux - then he'd be really pissed.