Peter da Silva skribis 2005-10-17 1:50 (-0500): > Get a Mac. And install Linux on it :)
I heard tho "Get a Mac" mantra so often that I started believing it would actually not be as hateful as the rest of software. A little less than a year later, I know much better and have installed Linux on it (Kubuntu breezy), because dpkg is better at handling system packages than the .app crap that lacks centralized upgrades, and KDE is so much better at providing useful GUIs. OS X is beautiful and lacks user choice. User friendly, however, I think it is not. It has been a very frustrating experience. One of the last things I did with OS X, before installing Kubuntu yesterday, was burning the Kubuntu installation CD that I had downloaded as an iso file. Right click the iso file, see if there's anything that looks like "Burn" in the context menu. No, there is not. Okay, then see if I can drag it onto something. But there's nothing to drag it to. No icon for the blank cd I inserted. I found no program in my entire Applications folder that looked like it had to do with burning a CD, so I resorted to Google. It turns out that you have to use a Disk Utility to open the image (which also mounts it, without that being either asked for or necessary). It has a Burn button. It burned and verified correctly. But were I given the choice, I'd have disabled the verification to save a few minutes. This last OS X experience convinced me that installing Linux was the Right Thing to do. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html
