I totally agree. While I spend most of my day in a research lab on Fedora machines, it is not very nice to come home to a suite of incompatibilites on a linux box. I mean, it might work well after a month or so of tweaking, but, if my buddy comes over with his new digital camera, I have to recompile my kernel to even have a PRAYER of seeing his photos. And don't get me started on scanners... there still is no support for like 90% of them.
It seems to me that Apple so far is the only one that's gotten this message. They made a beautiful operating system based on BSD, and managed to do so while still making a famously user-friendly interface. This gives all the power and flexibility that the most advanced techie could need, but also keeps things easy when they need to be so. I love opening up my powerbook wherever I am, knowing that I don't need to jump through hoops to connect to wifi, and then busting into the root filesystem when things get screwy. All my favorite unix apps work just as well as they do on a linux system (thanks to Fink), and absolutely any device can be connected to it without the faintest headache. Whenever I need to install something new, I just double-click on the.app inside any.dmg, and byu.
All I'm saying is that the linux community needs to keep more of these compatibility issues in mind when updating the features of the newest release. Stability is certainly an issue worth dealing with, but the os will NEVER be successful until it has the ease of use of os x.
C'mon... if I tried to put linux on my mom's computer, I would never sleep because of all the midnight trouble calls. I love the OS as much as anybody else, but it is simply not practical for the average person..... yet.
This doesn't seem terribly surprising. There are so many things about the universe that we do not yet understand, and the idea of dark matter was kind of a catch-all. It's not as though we've ever physically witnessed the stuff... we just couldn't figure out why the theory didn't work, so a new name was invented. Regardless of what Einstein said, if a fact doesn't fit the theory, then there's something wrong with the theory. It's nice to know that, in this case, an experimental whole mess was just a result of theoreticians' BS (bad science).
I recently bought a Powerbook G4, and have been a mac convert ever since. Don't get me wrong, the cheapness of PCs along with their wide variety of software is alluring, but, when the going gets tough, my Powerbook just gets tougher. I have never had a single crash, have never seen a BSOD, and have always been able to find some piece of software that will get the job done. And anytime I turn on the computer, I never have to struggle with the BIOS or figure out why my computer is demanding I boot into "Safe mode..." it just gives me the happy faced mac, and assures that everything will be ok!
Also, I dig the placement of the Command key on Apple's keyboards. It makes key commands much faster and easier when in the midst of note taking/paper writing/on-location audio editing and the like.
To me, there is no question: OSX is the king.
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I totally agree. While I spend most of my day in a research lab on Fedora machines, it is not very nice to come home to a suite of incompatibilites on a linux box. I mean, it might work well after a month or so of tweaking, but, if my buddy comes over with his new digital camera, I have to recompile my kernel to even have a PRAYER of seeing his photos. And don't get me started on scanners... there still is no support for like 90% of them.
.app inside any .dmg, and byu.
It seems to me that Apple so far is the only one that's gotten this message. They made a beautiful operating system based on BSD, and managed to do so while still making a famously user-friendly interface. This gives all the power and flexibility that the most advanced techie could need, but also keeps things easy when they need to be so. I love opening up my powerbook wherever I am, knowing that I don't need to jump through hoops to connect to wifi, and then busting into the root filesystem when things get screwy. All my favorite unix apps work just as well as they do on a linux system (thanks to Fink), and absolutely any device can be connected to it without the faintest headache. Whenever I need to install something new, I just double-click on the
All I'm saying is that the linux community needs to keep more of these compatibility issues in mind when updating the features of the newest release. Stability is certainly an issue worth dealing with, but the os will NEVER be successful until it has the ease of use of os x.
C'mon... if I tried to put linux on my mom's computer, I would never sleep because of all the midnight trouble calls. I love the OS as much as anybody else, but it is simply not practical for the average person..... yet.
This doesn't seem terribly surprising. There are so many things about the universe that we do not yet understand, and the idea of dark matter was kind of a catch-all. It's not as though we've ever physically witnessed the stuff... we just couldn't figure out why the theory didn't work, so a new name was invented. Regardless of what Einstein said, if a fact doesn't fit the theory, then there's something wrong with the theory. It's nice to know that, in this case, an experimental whole mess was just a result of theoreticians' BS (bad science).
I recently bought a Powerbook G4, and have been a mac convert ever since. Don't get me wrong, the cheapness of PCs along with their wide variety of software is alluring, but, when the going gets tough, my Powerbook just gets tougher. I have never had a single crash, have never seen a BSOD, and have always been able to find some piece of software that will get the job done. And anytime I turn on the computer, I never have to struggle with the BIOS or figure out why my computer is demanding I boot into "Safe mode..." it just gives me the happy faced mac, and assures that everything will be ok! Also, I dig the placement of the Command key on Apple's keyboards. It makes key commands much faster and easier when in the midst of note taking/paper writing/on-location audio editing and the like. To me, there is no question: OSX is the king.
Has anyone else noticed that way fewer kids play with Mr. Potato Head these days? Man, there's the generational gap for you...