Re: [Audyssey] mac is a joke (was windows xp,

[Travis Siegel]

When I need a program that doesn't exist on the mac, I either go to places 
like sourceforge and find one, or I sit down and write my own.  I realize 
this option isn't open to all, but to be honest, I've had to write very 
few apps for myself.  Especially since I'm more a terminal guy than a 
graphics one anyhow, so building apple scripts, bash scripts, or just 
finding command-line apps to do what I want is no problem at all.  If you 
need graphical interfaces for your work, obviously, your mileage will 
vary, but honestly, I've never found anything I can't do with my mac. 
Admittedly, there are not many games for the mac (though I've tried to 
help with that by porting anything I can get my hands on that looks like 
it might be useful, though at the moment, my mac pages are out of service 
due to several factors, including  switching hosts recently.  So things 
aren't as settled as they might otherwise be, but still, I don't find macs 
any harder to find programs for than any of my linux boxes, it only takes 
a bit of knowledge of where to look, and experience compiling your own 
programs.  I realize not everyone likes or even wants to do this sort of 
thing, and I suppose in that case, a mac may not be up to par for that 
kind of person, but to be honest, these days, I won't even use a program 
unless I can download and compile from scratch if I so choose, (and I 
often do), which is why I primarily use linux and freeBsd these days, 
though I still have windows machines (that get used rarely, maybe 3 times 
in the last 10 years or so), and since I've been enjoying my raspberry pi 
lately, even my mac gets turned on less and less these days, but that in 
no way deminishes it's usability.


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