[Tfug] 2 weeks of Hackintosh fun..

[Chris Hill]

Bowie J. Poag wrote:
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> Well, it's been two weeks now since I gave up my Linux desktop in 
> favor of an Darwin/x86 OS X "Hackintosh" desktop.
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> I'm not looking back.
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> I've got some sobering news for you guys... I really think we're 
> entering a post-Linux sort of era, if not already there.. Having 
> enjoyed 2 weeks of a consistent, elegant, functional, stable, 
> efficient Unix desktop, there's really nothing attractive left to draw 
> me back to Linux as a day-to-day environment. I'm sure Linux will 
> always occupy a strong position server-wise, but as a desktop 
> environment, the game's over.  Even after 10 years going, the Linux 
> community has failed to deliver a desktop with the attributes I listed 
> above..That's about has frank and as honest as I can be with it.
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> Call me smug, but the thing I've always warned and yapped incessantly 
> about is now the proverbial writing on the wall. If the primary 
> development focus of a desktop project is to do nothing more than try 
> and mimic an existing design, you'll resign yourself to perpetual 2nd 
> place flea market knock-off status. Both KDE and GNOME are absolutely 
> consumed with this approach, and it's only a matter of time before the 
> end user realizes both projects have only succeeded at perpetually 
> failing to deliver. If you're a hobbyist, that's fine, enjoy it.. But 
> as a mainstream desktop, when it comes to Linux it just ain't gonna 
> happen, i'm afraid.
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> Cheers,
> Bowie
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