I switched to mac os when 3.1 came out, for ease of use and because the software on macs was always technically superior, where it seemed always that Gates/msnot will give you the least possible amount of existing technology for the highest price,and where Jobs always seemed to give the most technically advanced software that your money can buy. More bang for your buck, I thought it was an obvious choice. Then I switched to nextstep because It was technically, and to this day there are things there that remain unchallenged. I then switched to linux because even NeXTStep had the problem of disappearing software, ie you get used to some program, learn every hotkey, and in a year or two it goes on the scrap heap and is unsupported, usually for marketing reasons. Emacs on Debian will always be there, and I am now permanently FREE of Marketing scams. In GNU Software(despite redhat, boycott redhat, windows, mac. Vive le GNU!) the software is changed for technically valid reasons which almost always yield on the whole better software, not because it makes (some greedy chump) more money in a less usable configuration. People who use windows are still technically limited by the same things that limited programs written 20 years or more ago, because that makes bill gates more money than giving you the best solution to the problem. In linux I will always be free to pick the best solution without regard to marketing of any type, or write one without having to start from absolute scratch.
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I switched to mac os when 3.1 came out, for ease of use and because the software on macs was always technically superior, where it seemed always that Gates/msnot will give you the least possible amount of existing technology for the highest price,and where Jobs always seemed to give the most technically advanced software that your money can buy. More bang for your buck, I thought it was an obvious choice. Then I switched to nextstep because It was technically, and to this day there are things there that remain unchallenged. I then switched to linux because even NeXTStep had the problem of disappearing software, ie you get used to some program, learn every hotkey, and in a year or two it goes on the scrap heap and is unsupported, usually for marketing reasons. Emacs on Debian will always be there, and I am now permanently FREE of Marketing scams. In GNU Software(despite redhat, boycott redhat, windows, mac. Vive le GNU!) the software is changed for technically valid reasons which almost always yield on the whole better software, not because it makes (some greedy chump) more money in a less usable configuration. People who use windows are still technically limited by the same things that limited programs written 20 years or more ago, because that makes bill gates more money than giving you the best solution to the problem. In linux I will always be free to pick the best solution without regard to marketing of any type, or write one without having to start from absolute scratch.