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Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow?

Posted by Soulskill on from the come-back-to-the-penguin's-loving-embrace dept.

jasnw writes "I'm one of apparently many people who moved to OS X from Linux in the early/mid 2000s for their desktop system, keeping Linux boxes around for the heavy lifting and server work. I may also be part of a large segment of that group now considering a return because of all the iOS-ification of OS X, despite the fact that the Linux desktop still falls short in the 'it just works' area. I'm angry enough at Apple, and wary enough of Linux, that I might just go to using Windows 7 for the desktop (not Win8, however). What is the feeling/experience of other 'traitors' who run OS X for the desktop and Linux for everything else?"

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  1. Quality entertainment by dyingtolive · · Score: 5, Funny

    This thread will be good. I expect well-reasoned and rational comments from all sides, naturally.

    *Munches popcorn and waits*

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    1. Re:Quality entertainment by bobdehnhardt · · Score: 5, Funny

      Popcorn? You're munching popcorn?

      Hmph. Everyone knows corn nuts are the best snack for well-reasoned and rational comment watching!

    2. Re:Quality entertainment by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 3, Funny

      Great news.

      Now, will you give me an insight regarding "Almond Milk". I can't find almond udders - even with a magnifing glass.

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  2. MasterTroll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your trollcraft is strong, you named every OS, praising it whilst simultaneously deriding it. I give you 32 troll points for what will likely be highly polarized responses and self-sustaining conjecture and disagreement.

    1. Re:MasterTroll by JBMcB · · Score: 5, Funny

      BeOS would be the best, if it were not for OS/2.

      Of course, OS/2 couldn't hold a candle to AmigaOS.

      Unless RiscOS never existed.

      Of course, if RiscOS was open source, *truly* open source, then it might be as good as FreeBSD.

      However, FreeBSD isn't nearly as secure as OpenBSD.

      And OpenBSD is great, unless you want to run it hardware people actually *own* which is why NetBSD is better.

      Of course, NetBSD is missing all the amazing features of a mature OS like OpenVMS.

      Except OpenVMS is a dinosaur, not nearly as modern as Solaris.

      And if you're a masochist, Solaris is great, which is why sane people use ChromeOS.

      Unless you actually want to *do* something, in which case there's QNX.

      So the answer is... FreeDOS.

      Does DESQView run in FreeDOS? 'Cause you do need an X server...

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  3. Re:Windows 7 by shikaisi · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've had great success with cinnamon on Linux Mint 14, give it a try

    Does this belong on Slashdot or on a cooking blog?

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  4. Re:Answer=FreeBSD by rochberg · · Score: 4, Funny

    The only hardware support issues have been video and wifi.

    Oh, that's it? I'm glad that there are no issues with anything important...