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You know why Linux is inferior? Because I have to install it.

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Bingowings said:

Linux has applications for just about anything. What are you looking for?

Just because Linux has those applications doesn’t mean it’s a viable option to switch. You have to learn all new workflows, applications, conventions, and more. Time and money could be lost in the process.

Most Linux machines take way more work to maintain than a Mac or a PC. To bring up the old adage, Linux is only viable if you don’t value your time.

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HansiG said:

Bingowings said:
Anything you can do on a PC or Mac you can do just as well on a Linux machine

Videogames

To be fair, video games on Mac OS aren’t all that great.

But we do have Half Life!

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I use macs just because I do a lot of freelance video and graphic design work and most places I go to work will be working off Mac systems.

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I love Mac

I’ll take it over Political Correctness any day.

What’s that? Computers? O…

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One of my favorite about the Mac is how you can pretty much name a file almost anything, with any special characters. (Except for :, but that’s for historical reasons)

Renaming files

(P.S.: Don’t get me started on file name extensions)

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yhwx said:

The traditional GUI has built up so much UI debt

what the heck is UI debt?

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Warbler said:

yhwx said:

The traditional GUI has built up so much UI debt

what the heck is UI debt?

I guess I have to first explain technical debt.

From Wikipedia:

Technical debt (also known as design debt or code debt) is “a concept in programming that reflects the extra development work that arises when code that is easy to implement in the short run is used instead of applying the best overall solution”.

Some believe that, analogous to monetary debt, that if technical debt is not repaid, then it will keep on accumulating ‘interest’, making it harder to implement changes later on. Unaddressed technical debt increases software entropy.

Apply this concept to user interfaces.

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yhwx said:

Bingowings said:

Linux has applications for just about anything. What are you looking for?

Just because Linux has those applications doesn’t mean it’s a viable option to switch. You have to learn all new workflows, applications, conventions, and more. Time and money could be lost in the process.

Most Linux machines take way more work to maintain than a Mac or a PC. To bring up the old adage, Linux is only viable if you don’t value your time.

That is just not true and as Linux is free you know I’m not paid to say this. These arguments have been done to death Windows is dying OS X is tied to overpriced badly made hardware, most users will get by with chrome. That leaves Linux which is free, adaptable and is easier to run than M$ and as easy to as it’s close cousin OS X. Both are UNIX based.

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TV’s Frink said:

yhwx said:

TV’s Frink said:

yhwx said:

TV’s Frink said:

You know why Linux is inferior? Because I have to install it.

Good point.

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Bingowings said:

yhwx said:

Bingowings said:

Linux has applications for just about anything. What are you looking for?

Just because Linux has those applications doesn’t mean it’s a viable option to switch. You have to learn all new workflows, applications, conventions, and more. Time and money could be lost in the process.

Most Linux machines take way more work to maintain than a Mac or a PC. To bring up the old adage, Linux is only viable if you don’t value your time.

That is just not true and as Linux is free you know I’m not paid to say this.

Apple users aren’t shy of complaining about Apple. So, Apple doesn’t pay people just to talk nice about them.

As a user and follower of the Apple community, I have heard countless complaints and have many myself.

These arguments have been done to death Windows is dying OS X is tied to overpriced badly made hardware

  1. It’s not overpriced. I’ve gone over this before. The fact is, most Apple hardware is similarly priced to comparable PC hardware. Read my linked posts above for more detail. Apple just doesn’t want to get $2 on everything they make.

  2. Badly made? I assure you that Apple’s hardware is probably the best in the business, especially when compared cheap, plastic PCs. The only hardware maker that is producing products even close to Apple is Microsoft.

  3. I agree with you that Windows is dying.

most users will get by with Chrome.

I agree with you there.

That leaves Linux which is free, adaptable and is easier to run than M$ and as easy to as it’s close cousin OS X. Both are UNIX based.

  1. I personally think that a Windows machine is easier to run than a Linux machine, as Linux was made for this:

Server

Not this:

PC

  1. I assume you mean “as easy to use as it’s close cousin OS X.” I disagree. I think that desktop Linux has not successfully hidden all it’s Unix-ness the way that OS X has.

M$

Oh, come on.