I agree, and although I want to see Linux succeed, I still think some of our geek brethren are too far off in Linux land. The lure of the Mac is that it works, and does so beautifully. It's BSD so it has a Unix command line for übergeeks, and a great GUI interface for non-geek folks. The only drawback is that is too damned expensive for most people (I can't afford one, yet). I've been a long time windows hater that has switched to Linux three times, tried my best, and switched back to windows. Why? because it just wasn't (still isn't) ready for the desktop, however it is steadily improving with time. I enjoyed using several distributions of Linux but just got fed up with the ugly fonts and lack of hardware support. I've never got a printer or a wireless nic to work correctly under Linux (even after compiling my own drivers). I know these things will be corrected with time, but the Mac has them corrected now, and thatâ(TM)s why I've resolved to dump my Wintel box in the near future. Since, I have indeed been a windows user, I'm sick of tinkering with the machine trying to fix all the damned problems and, software issues aside, Iâ(TM)m also disgusted with Microsoftâ(TM)s corporate greed. I really hope its behavior (contempt for its customers and the industry) will cause it to crumble like a Greek temple in an earthquake.
So, to all those Linux people out there, I wouldn't knock Apple too much, at least its a computer company that's friendly to computing culture.
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I agree, and although I want to see Linux succeed, I still think some of our geek brethren are too far off in Linux land. The lure of the Mac is that it works, and does so beautifully. It's BSD so it has a Unix command line for übergeeks, and a great GUI interface for non-geek folks. The only drawback is that is too damned expensive for most people (I can't afford one, yet). I've been a long time windows hater that has switched to Linux three times, tried my best, and switched back to windows. Why? because it just wasn't (still isn't) ready for the desktop, however it is steadily improving with time. I enjoyed using several distributions of Linux but just got fed up with the ugly fonts and lack of hardware support. I've never got a printer or a wireless nic to work correctly under Linux (even after compiling my own drivers). I know these things will be corrected with time, but the Mac has them corrected now, and thatâ(TM)s why I've resolved to dump my Wintel box in the near future. Since, I have indeed been a windows user, I'm sick of tinkering with the machine trying to fix all the damned problems and, software issues aside, Iâ(TM)m also disgusted with Microsoftâ(TM)s corporate greed. I really hope its behavior (contempt for its customers and the industry) will cause it to crumble like a Greek temple in an earthquake. So, to all those Linux people out there, I wouldn't knock Apple too much, at least its a computer company that's friendly to computing culture.