[Tfug] The Joy of OSX, and the friction coefficient of goose droppings.

[Bowie J. Poag]

Disclaimer: I'm not a latte'-sipping emo hipster who parks his ass at 
Starbucks and cleans his black-rimmed glasses with his own tears.  
However....

I now own a Mac.

I am a Mac user.

Technically speaking.

I've been building an OSx86 Hackintosh over the past week or so, working 
off of a new Compaq Presario C700 laptop. I am now in the posession of a 
3GB dual-core Compaqintosh running Mac OS X 10.5.5. Everything about it 
works.. Sound, network, trackpad, video accelleration, wifi...It's 
identical in function and performance to the real thing at a fraction of 
the cost.

And I'm in love with it. Absolutely in love with it.

This is the way Unix should be. Fast, consistent, streamlined, 
efficient, fluid and elegant on the surface, and cold, brutal, and 
frighteningly user-hostile under the hood. The hood isn't bolted shut, 
either. The whole package is slicker than goose shit. My apologies if 
you didn't grow up in the midwest, but, trust me -- goose shit is pretty 
slick. Those damn geese are everywhere up there. You gotta watch where 
you walk.

I'm happy to leave desktop Linux in the ditch at this point, where Vista 
can keep it company. Linux is unbeatable in the server arena, but I 
think too many missed opportunities have gone by for Linux on the 
desktop to gain any real traction.

Too much shit on the hill courtesy of the geese in Cupertino. :)

Cheers,
Bowie