Your Honest opinion

[Harvey Ussery]

I agree with Norberto--it is a loaded question. Depends on what you want 
from your OS. I used OSX exclusively for awhile after I bought this 
iMac--and then I just >had< to get back to Linux (even though to be sure 
it sometimes is a pain in the butt!). Most of the pre-rolled stuff in 
OSX is stuff I'll never use, and the production applic's I tried (word 
processor, spreadsheet) I found really unsatisfactory. Of course you can 
install fink & bring in Mac compatible versions of open source stuff 
like Abiword and Gnumeric--I did, and it was 'way more trouble than it 
was worth.

And I found OSX really opaque if I needed to figure anything out that 
wasn't already set up as a button to click. (Yeah I know, there's 
Darwin; but whenever I got into it I got pretty frustrated--admittedly, 
probably because I was used to bash.)

And have you tried the "Help" system in OSX??!! It is astounding that 
Apple can get away with such an unmitigated piece of crap!

OSX is like Windows in that it is designed for, and is probably the 
right solution for, someone with a plug&play approach to use of his 
computer. Linux appeals to someone cantankerous enough not to want 
someone else trying to determine how he should do things.

How cantankerous are you?    --Harvey


Norberto Quintanar wrote:

>That is a loaded question my friend.  
>
>--- jim <jsacem316@netzero.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>I have a question
>>What is the better OS
>>Yellowdoglinux 3.0
>>or Mac OS X?
>>Just curious
>>Jim
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