Me I shall stick to the village lass, pure as a mountain stream, and does all I need without the expensive tastes
How can you argue with 3000 + gnu apps while only a handful have been converted to MacOS X.
Running Win4Lin will give me Windows, although I don't see why. The only reason for a Mac is that wicked processor!!!!
I wish there were more distributions that carried linux versions for that processor, I would then switch in a heartbeat, erase OS X and install my village lass :=)
Kiggs
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 09:07, Paul Bagyenda wrote:
Kiggs, I have tried very hard to show you the light, but like most old dogs you refuse to learn new things! The only advantage for Linux-on-desktop over MacOS X is price, and even that is not significant. Apart from that, every true geek wants a MacOS X machine under their fingertips. As one who switched in Jan this year after 3 or so years as a Linux desktop user, I can tell you it has been pleasurable all the way. You get everything one gets on Linux/Windows, and better eye candy: I get MS Office vX, I get 3 browsers (Safar, IE 5.2 and Mozilla), I have all the Unix toys -- X Windows, vi, bash, PostgreSQL, emacs, Apache -- and I have Windows XP running under VirtualPC, for those times when Windows is required. And the Apple software is a joy to work with: Apple Mail is so clean and fast and has such a powerful built-in junk buster, it integrates beautifully with the Addressbook application, iTunes the music player is so nicely put together, the list goes on. And we haven't even started talking hardware -- oh! Any one out there who can do DVD playback on a Linux or Windows laptop for 2 1/2 hours -- on battery -- give me a call! So, Linux on desktop, last I checked, is improving greatly each passing day, and the numbers will be good if only because of Linux's growing market share. But MacOS X will beat the pants off Linux in useability for years to come, particularly now that they've done the Unix core thing. I am too sold. Linux is still very much the old girlfriend: she was good, very good, but wasn't quite good enough to keep around when the next one came around. P. On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 08:32 Africa/Kampala, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote: <excerpt><underline><color><param>0000,6666,0000</param>http://slate.msn.com/id/2084727/ </color></underline><italic>Business Week</italic> columnist Alex Salkever <underline><color><param>1999,1999,FFFF</param>dropped the bomb</color></underline> last week that next year, "Linux should pass Apple in market share for desktop operating systems on computers." </excerpt><<image.tiff> <excerpt> </excerpt>
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