Re: [PLUG] why apple

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> From: Ron Kaye Jr<rekaye1005@verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] why apple

There has been entirely too much rational and non-flame-war discourse on 
this topic.  Come on people, this is a mailing list on the Internet, 
there are standards we need to sink far below!!!  Apple sucks, Linux 
rules and don't even get me started about Windows!!!

OK, now that I got that out of my system...  :-)

Lots of people have made good arguments, but I haven't seen my other one 
yet.  I'm not a fan of the Vendor lock-in-from-hell, the DRM, and all of 
that stuff, but that's been covered.  My other problem is, I just hate 
the interface.  OK, someone complained about the software, which is 
similar to this, but...

I know it's supposed to be so much better than everything else, but I 
just don't "get" it.  I'm probably just an old curmudgeon (BTW, get off 
my lawn), but every time I've tried to use a Mac I end up at a bash 
prompt to try to get anything done.  And despite claims of BSD under the 
hood, *boy* did they mess with the file system.  Yuck.

I'm sure someone will argue I haven't spent enough time trying to use 
one, and that's probably true.  But I don't want to spend time *trying* 
to use a computer, I want to *have* used it to get my work done.

So no thanks for me, Ubuntu and Gnome work just fine and more-or-less 
stay out of my way so I can get stuff done.  (OK, yes, sometimes I have 
to fuss with it a bit.  But unlike Windows, Linux will actually have a 
root cause and fix, not just reboot-then-reinstall.  And unlike a Mac 
you *can* tweak it however you desire. :)

Later,
JP

PS--Someone said something about having the core utils handy.  Too true, 
I can't live without those.  So I use the 
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ and ActivePerl when on Windows.

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