"Alex Rønne Petersen" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 10-03-2012 20:23, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Alex Rønne Petersen"<[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >>> On 10-03-2012 18:58, H. S. Teoh wrote: >>>> >>>> Then you must be running a very different Linux from the one I use. In >>>> my experience, it's Windows that's an order of magnitude less >>>> responsive >>>> due to constant HD thrashing (esp. on bootup, and then periodically >>>> thereafter) and too much eye-candy. >>> >>> This. On the other hand, OS X has all the eye candy and is still >>> extremely >>> responsive. ;) >>> >> >> That's because they cram [their] hardware upgrades down your throat every >> couple years. >> >> > > No one forces you to upgrade. >
That's true. They just say "You *could* stick with your ancient two-year-old machine...You'll be shit out of luck when you need to install anything...but yea, we'll *cough* 'let' *cough* you do it...hee hee hee."
