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- nstanosheck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It all depends on what you want to do. You can still run Classic and Mac OS X in Linux via Mac-on-Linux and Linux makes older Macs pop like they have not done in years. Not everyone can afford the latest and greatest Macs.
Also, some people just prefer open-source OSes and software to proprietary closed source OSes and software. All a matter of taste, I guess. - digggggggggg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2After 5 years or so of using Linux as my desktop OS, I switched to a Mac and haven't looked back. Although I wholeheartedly think that Linux is awesome for a lot of situations, even now, it's just not ready for the desktop.
For example, I was so accustomed to editing files in /etc/, changing around the ld path configuartion, and finding dependencies on top of dependencies just for getting a binary package to work, that it just seemed natural. Oftentimes, the binary would not work, and I had to resort to editing source code just to get a damn program to compile. Apple's OSX just works. Although most of it isn't open source, and it's not nearly as flexable as Linux, I like having the ability to download a DMG, drag the program to "applications," and expect it to work without having to do anything time consuming. Having the entire program under a single icon is unbelivably convinent. Just try to uninstall an app in Linux. Without a package manager, you'll have to weed out individual libraries and resources from obscure branches of /usr/lib/ , /usr/share/ , etc.
All of us have our reasons for switching from Mac to Linux. My question is: why? - ve7jtb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+04 year old story.
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