why not OS X?[II] or I love linux...

[John Nelson]

Microsoft's view of the Universe is a herd of food animals with 
disposable income (aka Grandmothers who want to talk to their children 
or web surfers looking for entertainment).

All of the Mac OS X and Linux users I know are more than "users" and 
often have serious needs for their machines.  These are often 
developers, designers, researchers and corporate users who have no 
tolerance for crap, even in user mode.

I view Microsoft OS's and applications as necessary evils when the same 
functionality is unavailable anywhere else.  If Quickbooks, Turbo Tax 
and many of the specific business and financial packages I necessarily 
use or subscribe to were available on Linux I wouldn't own any Microsoft 
operating systems.

Even so, I design and develop under Linux, not Microsoft.

-- John


will taggart wrote:
> The point I was trying to get at, and maybe I am not making myself 
> clear, is that all of the Unices, including Linux and OS X are so 
> similar and so much better than the crap that Microsoft puts out, why 
> advocate one over another? I am not simply a grandmother that wants to 
> use AOL to talk to her relatives. I want to be able to use UNIX apps 
> like nmap, pico, dsniff, tcpdump, and the GIMP. I enjoy using Linux and 
> all the Unices. But to me, they are basically all the same and learning 
> the intricacies of BSD and Linux has been a rewarding experience.
> 
> BTW: does anyone know how to modify the screen that appears right after 
> the boot options (LILO) and before all of the initialization scripts? I 
> have been hunting for that and I can't find it.
> 
> But anyway, if you are going to use Linux as your primary OS, why not 
> use an x86 box instead of a PPC one? I feel like I am a third-world 
> computer user when I see my friends running SuSE 8.0, which is better 
> than any Linux I have ever seen. It makes me want an x86 system in 
> addition to my Mac. And for all the admins out there x86 hardware is 
> much more abundant and cheaper. I don't see the advantage of using a PPC 
> machine for Linux, although I consider Apple hardware some of the best.
> 
> I will continue to use Linux on my machine, and I enjoy it, but until my 
> modem and sound work and I get text that looks and feels great it will 
> be a secondary, experimental system for me.