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Microsoft Free, One Year Later
madgreek writes "Last year I wrote of my switch from XP to Ubuntu at work. Now a year later, I am back to reflect on one year of being extremely productive at work using (almost) nothing but open source software in a Microsoft world."
You're not the first to troll /. either :)
You are right, why manufacture or own a Ford when there are still formula one cars, hummers and 18 wheelers.
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Perfect and almost perfect are relative to each user. OSX is far from perfect for me because of the following:
1) Games...there really aren't any. I'm a gamer and I need my games.
2) Hotkeys. This shit drives me nuts and it's not easy to fix. Jobs thinks he knows best so all those hotkey like cut and paste he had to change. On Win and Linux they function pretty much the same as each other.
3) Interface kinda sux. Sorry but I just don't like the way the whole open close, min-max window deal works. Unfortunately, Jobs once again knows best and doesn't let you change it.
4) No backspace key on Macs. Once again, Jobs thinks he knows best. Sure, I know about holding shift-delete (I actually own a MacBook) but I don't want to hold down another key just to fucking backspace!
So the Mac is FAR from perfect for me. It's got some cool stuff to be sure but I doubt it will ever be great for me as long as Jobs' ego is too interested in telling me what's best for me. Consequently, Linux is a much better fit from my perspective. Your mileage may vary.
Are agnostics skeptical of unicorns too?