It honestly depends what you are doing. I did Windows from 3.1 through
'95 and Me, before moving to (SuSE) Linux then to OSX. Linux had its
strong points, until OSX did Unix right.
To this day, there are things that are missing in Linux but are in
OSX that surprise me. I'm not talking of mere eye candy. I'm talking
about stuff that makes computers worth working with. Here is my short
list.
1) I've used both Linux and OSX for a lot of software development
work. OSX beats up Linux and takes away it's lunch money. Simple
things: Memory leak detection (when you do evil C or C++) is so
simple and miles better than the next best thing (valgrind) on Linux.
And it relies on stuff the Linux crew could have done anyway. And all
the other stuff (Apache, PostgreSQL, etc.) works well too.
2) Media: It's a while since I used Linux on the desktop, but when
you are used to cut+paste+resize of images, change format, create PDF
from anything, quick-extract-video-segment from movie and such on the
Mac, you are forgiven for not understanding why no one else does it as
easily out of the box. And this stuff is all well-integrated into the
system (because of APIs -- CoreAudio, CoreImage, QuickTime and so on)
3) Small things: Network config is way intuitive. And, network comes
up (e.g. wifi in range) and all apps that care get notified. Mail
starts to flow, browser pages that didn't load load. Then printer
config: Painless, complete with smart discovery. Then the firewall --
not as extensive perhaps as Linux, but intuitively simple enough for
my needs. Mail.app is clutter-free. System-wide search works
beautifully, backups, connect hard disk at end of day, go take a walk,
come back, all synchronised.
And the thing is, you get the sense that whoever designs these
things has more than half a brain! Everything is well-designed/
integrated from the bottom up. None of this spray-on candy that you
get with Windows. Linux? I think apart from the kernel, there are
really few guiding geniuses, and it shows. Which is why I keep it on
the server side for now.
P.
On Oct 22, 2009, at 09:15, Mwirima Byaruhanga wrote:
Wire James wrote thus on 10/22/09 9:18 AM:
Niles
Value is in perceptions. A good outer design could make all the
difference even though the inside had lots of crap. Customers buy
feelings.
Correct.
That's only reason I like apple gear. Cool looks.
OSX.. may be, but Linux is as good.
eb
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