>>I recently switched to using a mac after a long time of pc+linux, the most jarring part of the change was dealing with the community.
I'm jaded from reading too many language war trolls... :-)
What gets my goat are the higher prices for everything -- today there is a repair bill for my Mac portable which would pay for an ok Linux laptop... :-(
(Apple sell some guarantee extension, but I thought naively that I didn't move the portable around enough for it to break. :-( But maybe it is me; my work Lenovo T60 isn't that steady, either...)
I'll buy the argument that Apple do design (GUI, hardware and O/S integration) better, but I really don't see that much of a win compared to Linux for using a browser, bash and Emacs.
I'm jaded from reading too many language war trolls... :-)
What gets my goat are the higher prices for everything -- today there is a repair bill for my Mac portable which would pay for an ok Linux laptop... :-(
(Apple sell some guarantee extension, but I thought naively that I didn't move the portable around enough for it to break. :-( But maybe it is me; my work Lenovo T60 isn't that steady, either...)
I'll buy the argument that Apple do design (GUI, hardware and O/S integration) better, but I really don't see that much of a win compared to Linux for using a browser, bash and Emacs.