[Tfug] 2 weeks of Hackintosh fun..

[Jim Secan]

OK, now you're starting to show a bit of froth about the mouth.  I am not
looking for a fancy glitzy desktop, I am looking for one that works and I
don't have to fiddle with all the time.  OS X does that for me.  The point
here is NOT that I paid for my desktop OS, but that I gave up on the free
Linux desktop because it has not met my needs and probably won't (without
more time than I have to spend on it) in the near future.

On Linux, I spend 99.999% of my time on the command line in a terminal
window anyway, or I don't have a desktop even running.  With OS X as my
desktop, I can stop worrying about what WM to use and focus on my real
job.  If I were a computer hobbyist, I'd probably feel different.  I
expect I will always spend more time "in" Linux than "in" OS X, but not
for desktop apps.

Jim

Shawn Nock wrote:
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> Jim Secan wrote:
>> Windoze gets its share of mention in these discussions and it's
>> certainly
>> not free.
>
> You've made a valid point about how MacOS : Windows :: Pepsi : Coke when
> the metric is Free Unix.
>
>> The
>> fact that Bowie, I, and lots of other ex-Linuxers, are switching to OS X
>> for their desktop says a lot about Linux and it's failure to provide a
>> quality desktop interface.
>
> I simply do not buy this argument, despite it being often invoked.
> Having a preference for "fancy 3d desktop animations of a certain brand"
> is simply not the same thing as "failure to provide a quality desktop".
>
> There are many choices in the FOSS desktop environment. Most all of them
> are pretty and stable; all of them may be made better and modified to
> suit your needs.
>
> I do wish that people would separate preference from fact and stop
> blaming FOSS developers in an attempt to ameliorate their guilt about
> have said preference.
>
> You can like like MacOS without blaming FOSS. Heck, my mother loves
> MacOS; It helps her get her tasks done.
>
> To my mind, the thing that keeps Linux out of the 'mainstream' is the
> lack of proprietary application support. The most common argument that I
> hear is "I can't live without X", where X is a proprietary software
> package that doesn't yet have Linux support.
>
> Change is difficult and people are unlikely to jump headlong into it.
> MacOS is functionally identical to Windows (especially with respect to
> vendor support). A Windows person can boot MacOS for the first time and
> think "Why is the start menu shaped like that? Oh well, there's the MS
> Word logo next to Photoshop Icon".
>
> As for Linux users moving to MacOS, well... there's no accounting for
> taste, is there?
>
> Shawn
>
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