Mark Tinka wrote thus on 1/4/08 4:55 AM: > On Thursday 03 January 2008 16:31, Dan Bwente wrote: > >> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?art >> icleID=201002048 > > Personally, having moved from Linux to Mac OS X mid last > year, I'd say it was easier for me to move from Windows to > SuSE than it was from SuSE to Mac OS X.
I agree here. Having used FC, SuSE and then Ubuntu for years before moving to OS X, I am much in favour of Ubuntu over OS X. However, there are common problems with peripheral support on Linux that the average mwananchi will suffer with. Then of course, Microsoft Office that is not yet ported to Linux but is available on OS X. > It was not so much the nitty-gritty details and differences > in both OS's that I had to pick up (that's the easy part), > as it was customizing what applications I find important to > me within my newly-found operating environment, i.e., the > flexibility (or lack thereof) of large scale e-mail storage > on Mac OS X sucks. Thankfully, VMWare is my friend. I remember we had this thread a while back - I have a mozilla profile dating back to mid 2003, now more than 4GB, and have had zero issues with it in any OS that i have roamed with it (Windoze, Linux and OS X) eb
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