Linux can't compete with OS X on the desktop. Anyone who says it can is living in a fantasy world, or is simply a linux zealot.
I know this does not represent the opinion of most Macintosh users, but:
What about us poor souls that like twm better than Aqua? Or, we who prefer typing "cp ~/foo ~/files" over dragging it through a desktop window? Or, we with zero money to spend on system upgrades, and 64MB of RAM? (Or, we who really like being able to set the screen resolution to 16x12.;))
Last time I ran OSX (10.2 prerelease, internal edition) it took the machine three episodes of Cowboy Bebop to bring up a freakin' Get Info window! (Actually, that's just when I gave up watching the inverted rectangles grow and reset the machine.) Why should I bother when I can just click my snappy, customized desktop menu, choose an xterm (eight flavors to choose from), and type "ls -hld"?
Why let iTunes take up screen space and 20MB of RAM, when I can just have MikMod running on terminal 5? Who gave the Dock the right to take up 17MB? Why should an activity monitor take up 22MB? Who needs an AIM client that uses 30MB? A web browser that uses 40MB? A window server that uses 62MB?!
My Linux system's total RAM usage usually peaks around 25-30MB, even with mikmod, top, naim, lynx (twice), twm, and my latest game running all on top of each other. And, not only that, it costed me $0 to install. Even the CD I burned it onto and the Internet connction I downloaded it with were free.
Why do all lines and fonts have to be antialiased in realtime? Why require a Radeon 8000 for decent compositing performance? While we're on the subject of video, why kill the Mach64 video driver?!
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I'm writing this from my OSX machine, because some moron ripped the Ethernet port out of my iBook and I don't have the money to fix it. I've got to admit, running on a decent system, OSX does give a better desktop experience than Linux. I seriously doubt I could run my Wormhole screen saver as my desktop picture under Linux and get the framerate I've been getting. (500+ fps, when uncapped) And Linux doesn't support Halo.
-:sigma.SB
This sounds [vaguely] similiar to what the PowerBook Duo was supposed to become. The Duo had several problems that prevented it from catching on; will these "handtops" go the same way?
-:sigma.SB
My old Blueberry iBook (G3 300MHz) is getting old. Her case is fractured in several places, missing in others, (notably the CD drive) her USB port is breaking, her Ethernet port is broken, her speakers blew out, her trackpad was disconnected from her motherboard, her video card is damaged, her screen has 4,000+ void/stuck pixels, her keyboard is falling apart... but strangely enough, though all the years of abuse, no vital components ceased to function. She's still happily running Yellow Dog Linux 2.3.
Oh, and I gave up trying to repair her ages ago. She bit the last repairman.
-:sigma.SB
Or, better yet (possibly worse...never used either technology in code before) use Speakable Items (listed here); that's been in the system since System 7.
-:sigma.SB
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Linux can't compete with OS X on the desktop. Anyone who says it can is living in a fantasy world, or is simply a linux zealot.
I know this does not represent the opinion of most Macintosh users, but:
What about us poor souls that like twm better than Aqua? Or, we who prefer typing "cp ~/foo ~/files" over dragging it through a desktop window? Or, we with zero money to spend on system upgrades, and 64MB of RAM? (Or, we who really like being able to set the screen resolution to 16x12. ;))
Last time I ran OSX (10.2 prerelease, internal edition) it took the machine three episodes of Cowboy Bebop to bring up a freakin' Get Info window! (Actually, that's just when I gave up watching the inverted rectangles grow and reset the machine.) Why should I bother when I can just click my snappy, customized desktop menu, choose an xterm (eight flavors to choose from), and type "ls -hld"?
Why let iTunes take up screen space and 20MB of RAM, when I can just have MikMod running on terminal 5? Who gave the Dock the right to take up 17MB? Why should an activity monitor take up 22MB? Who needs an AIM client that uses 30MB? A web browser that uses 40MB? A window server that uses 62MB?!
My Linux system's total RAM usage usually peaks around 25-30MB, even with mikmod, top, naim, lynx (twice), twm, and my latest game running all on top of each other. And, not only that, it costed me $0 to install. Even the CD I burned it onto and the Internet connction I downloaded it with were free.
Why do all lines and fonts have to be antialiased in realtime? Why require a Radeon 8000 for decent compositing performance? While we're on the subject of video, why kill the Mach64 video driver?!
</rant>
I'm writing this from my OSX machine, because some moron ripped the Ethernet port out of my iBook and I don't have the money to fix it. I've got to admit, running on a decent system, OSX does give a better desktop experience than Linux. I seriously doubt I could run my Wormhole screen saver as my desktop picture under Linux and get the framerate I've been getting. (500+ fps, when uncapped) And Linux doesn't support Halo.
-:sigma.SB
This sounds [vaguely] similiar to what the PowerBook Duo was supposed to become. The Duo had several problems that prevented it from catching on; will these "handtops" go the same way?
-:sigma.SB
Well, actually, she's a she simply because she has no male ports.
-:sigma.SB
My old Blueberry iBook (G3 300MHz) is getting old. Her case is fractured in several places, missing in others, (notably the CD drive) her USB port is breaking, her Ethernet port is broken, her speakers blew out, her trackpad was disconnected from her motherboard, her video card is damaged, her screen has 4,000+ void/stuck pixels, her keyboard is falling apart... but strangely enough, though all the years of abuse, no vital components ceased to function. She's still happily running Yellow Dog Linux 2.3.
Oh, and I gave up trying to repair her ages ago. She bit the last repairman.
-:sigma.SB
Or, better yet (possibly worse...never used either technology in code before) use Speakable Items (listed here); that's been in the system since System 7. -:sigma.SB