[ale] Linux bashed by Apple?

[Rich Faulkner]

Again, (IMHO), the public is in such a mind-set of proprietary numbness
that they think MS tools and "what they know" is the only way to go.
When "I" took the Linux "oath"; I did so knowing that I was embracing
the open-source way of computing.  That means using F/OSS tools and
friendly hardware.  I want "my" computer to be a tool; not a revenue
source for Apple or Microsoft.  

OS/X was "cool" for a time (a very short-time); but that was when I was
in the process of dumping MS.  Back then I was going between OS/X, X64
and SuSE 10.1.  We still have the Mac but it is nothing but a glorified
audio processor running Pro Tools LE in our production studio; and as
much as SuSE 10.1 didn't win-out against X64...X64 got dumped in favor
of Fedora and now running Ubuntu (and very happy with it I might add!)
MS is a think of the past at my desk...YMMV

RinL



On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 11:41 -0400, JD wrote:

> On 08/27/2012 11:15 PM, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:
> > Is this old news or did I just wake up?
> > 
> > http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/27/tech/web/apple-linux-desktop/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
> 
> 
> Funny, OSX always feels like "Linux-lite" to me.  I spent a week using an OSX
> box last February - on purpose.  It was painful.  All the keyboard shortcuts
> were wrong.  I suspect if I'd used OSX and only OSX for 6 months, those chords
> would seem elegant. To me they were "different just to be different."  The mouse
> copy/paste was painful too, but I'm used to pure X/Windows select/paste.
> 
> I think the real issue for Linux desktop growth is the lack of 100% compatible
> MS-Office software and professional image and video editing software - basically
> Adobe tools.  Screwing around with "almost compatible" software is something
> most people don't want.
> 
> Attempt to work on MS-Office documents with reviewer comments, comparisons and
> version editing inside Libre/Open Office on any platform, including Linux. It
> doesn't work.  Pagination is off too.
> 
> For home users, Quicken, TurboTax, software compatible with iTunes and
> commercial games probably matter most. I could be wrong.
> 
> Gamers will probably never leave MS-Windows until 5 really big game vendors
> switch to Linux as their primary development platform and delay the release of
> games at least 4 months to Windows after the Linux release.  Not likely.  I have
> a friend in a small "SWAT-Team" company for game publishers. His company
> optimizes code to make it perform. They are experts at GPUs, C++ and ASM. He
> works for all the game companies we know on a per-project basis, usually only a
> few months per game.  He loves Linux and BSD, but none of his clients have asked
> for anything related to Linux. Work is 100% Windows.
> 
> OSX has really taken over the Ruby and Perl developer communities from what I've
> seen. They want the power of UNIX, but the ability to buy commercial software to
> get other things done too.  $2000 is nothing to spend in terms of the higher
> productivity they believe happens using OSX.  I suspect other professional
> scripting language programmers are the same - migrating to OSX.
> 
> Apple hardware has that undefined "cool factor" for many. Always a plus. The
> $200 iPod was their gateway drug.
> 
> Plus, embedding MS-Visio graphics only works for MS-Office, not LibreOffice.
> For my work, Visio is a must-have program.
> 
> I use Linux constantly, daily, and love it for the most part. When I need to
> work with others on documents, I push ODF files so there isn't any need to boot
> a Windows VM, but sometimes I'm too slow and the versioning/comments are enabled
> in a different format, so I'm screwed.
> 
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