Windows Linux or Mac?
POSTED BY: Haze
UPDATED: Saturday, April 8, 2006 06:42
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Originally posted by Haze:
In an offshoot from my resent post about Firefox Vs IE I thought I would as about you favourite OS.
I switched to Mac a few years back...after years of frustrating Windows glitches.....what was I thinking?? the Mac OS X operating system is flawless (so far).... I totally recommend all things Apple...
And I plan to buy the new PowerBook with the intel core duo processor just as soon as I can, with complete confidence that it will be even better...
take it from a long time pc guy who pretty much makes his living with these things... Switch Now!....(i've come to believe that Windows OS is evil and must have ties to some nefarious government agency not unlike the Alliance in the future), of course, I tend to be a might paranoid about some things.
"...actually, I was fired...from a fry cook opportunity..."
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I think there are more problems then just having to restart windows a few times. If that were all that would be fine. I only have windows now but I really want to switch to a Mac. The real concerns with any windows machine are the need to Defrag, Viruses, Spyware and any number of unknown theats. Viruses might happen on linux but the people using it find a way to beat it pretty quickly but lack of WiFi support was a problem for me. I would love to get a mac because they have had to date only one Viral attack that I know of and that was very recent. You might lose the ability to play the games on mac but you can buy a compy of windows and then play the games on your mac. With all them the macs can do I think it might be worth it. The fact that you can create a pod cast so easily and just send it right to Itunes is amazing and it's just about any musical instrument you could ever want (Garage Band). So of the macs even habe a camera built in and mic for Video podcasting or chatting. Just go to an Apple Store. As for linux you can do the same (buy a copy and have a dual boot up.)
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Originally posted by Haze:
Here’s a question. If I were to go with Linux what version would you recommend?
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I haven't had much experience with many different Linux distributions, but my personal feeling is that they're all pretty much the same, just with a lightly different feel. Red Hat's Fedora is a quick and fairly painless install, and it works just fine. I use Red Hat Enterprise at work (the company pays for the support fees). I'm in the process of installing a Gentoo ditribution on a home machine. It's a (supposedly) better and more customizealbe distribution, should work faster, and you can put in a lot more tweak's, but I wouldn't recommend it as your first forray into Linux. It's a bit more tricky of an install...
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Originally posted by davec5:
I switched to Mac a few years back...after years of frustrating Windows glitches.....what was I thinking?? the Mac OS X operating system is flawless (so far).... I totally recommend all things Apple...
If it weren't for OS X, I would hate Mac. I was born and bred on Dos and Windows, and now I use Linux more often than I turn on my Windows machine. But Mac's always left a sour taste in my mouth. But now that the new Mac OS is running on a Linux (Free BSD) kernel, it's much much harder to dislike them. I mean, you get a terminal window, and a cool looking graphical interface. It's tough to go wrong. But still... It's a MAC.
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Here’s a question. If I were to go with Linux what version would you recommend?
BTW: please don't say that any of the BSD family are derivates of Linux -- this is a happy part of the world but probably isn't flame-proof
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I've ordered a copy of Ubuntu Linux as I have heard so many good things about it, and hey the disc is free! I find myself in the position now of being able to swap my Amd 64 3200+ media center pc for a G4 imac. Both have one gig of ram.
What do you think? Good deal?
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Originally posted by PurpleBelly:
BTW: please don't say that any of the BSD family are derivates of Linux -- this is a happy part of the world but probably isn't flame-proof
Ok, so if I'm trying to be 100% accurate, which, though I usually try to be, larely fail at doing most times, I should have said that Mac OS is based on Unix (Free BSD). Would that have been more acceptable? :-)
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Originally posted by Haze:
I've ordered a copy of Ubuntu Linux as I have heard so many good things about it, and hey the disc is free! I find myself in the position now of being able to swap my Amd 64 3200+ media center pc for a G4 imac. Both have one gig of ram.
What do you think? Good deal?
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What do you plan on doing with the machine? I mean, I have my own personal bias against Mac, so I would say no. Plus, an AMD 64 is a really good machine. But it depends on what you like...
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Oh know it’s a good machine, I wouldn’t touch a Pentium anymore! The primary reason I would got with a Mac is security and stability, but then again I can get them with Linux. I have to think on it. (and I was wrong its actually a G5 imac.)
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Quote:You do mean Unix-like?
Originally posted by FourSkys:
... Unix (Free BSD). Would that have been more acceptable?
http://www.unix.org/trademark.html
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