Windows Linux or Mac?
POSTED BY: Haze
UPDATED: Saturday, April 8, 2006 06:42
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Well liminalosity, then you're using a Mac for the exact reasons it's intended! All the best :)
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Originally posted by derangedmilk:
I loves me my Mac!!! Never'd do windows.
While I hear people who have Macs talking about how they love them all the time, and people who use windows saying they hate macs all the time, I was just curious if any of you have ever heard a windows user talk about how they had switched over from mac and absolutely love it?
Sure, in fact my brother is one of them. Since most folks actually started out on a PC due to Apple's extremely small userbase prior to OS9, those on a Mac (and loving it) tend to be former PC users.
"I do the job... and then I get paid. Go run your little world."
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Originally posted by Ruxton:
HAZE,
Am currently working with GIMP, after an entire day lost with Adobe buttheads. One so-called tech who turned out to be a salesman gave me wrong info on a trial version of Photoshop Elements (nearly 4 hours of download on DSL), which caused me to reinstall it, which voided the trial. I could therefore not even try it after all that time. When I asked another Adobe salesperson about it, I was told it's Adobe policy to NOT LET USERS KNOW that if they install, then uninstall and reinstall trial softwear it WON'T WORK. That attitude SUCKS. Earlier that day I did get one Adobe saleswoman who really knew her stuff, but after two hours we still could not make it work...unless I bought it.
So I went for the GIMP. It appears to be a very powerful program, and will do everything I need it to do. So thanks, Haze, for the tip.
STDOUBT, Very clever trilogies.
Glad I could help.
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Originally posted by derangedmilk:
That was....entertaining to say the least.
I loves me my Mac!!! Never'd do windows.
While I hear people who have Macs talking about how they love them all the time, and people who use windows saying they hate macs all the time, I was just curious if any of you have ever heard a windows user talk about how they had switched over from mac and absolutely love it?
-e
"Storms getting worse."
"We'll pass through it soon enough."
Well, I'm one of those people. Sort of. Raised on Windows, Linux by choice, but using Windows because Linux doesn't work that well with my laptop. My experiences with Mac OS X have been nothing short of spectacular. I don't have most of the same frustrations I do with Windows, and Macs haven't really made anything inconvenient for me (don't much care for PC gaming). It just works, and at the same time I get the ability to tool around with a command-line similar to what I use in Linux, compile open-source software, program, etc. It's really the best experience I've ever had in computing, and I'm on pins and needles waiting for my MacBook Pro to arrive (should hopefully arrive tomorrow).
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20060306/bs_nf/41948
Beware, OSX users. You were safe in a small market because the hacker response to OSX was "I don't care?". Apple hasn't had to deal with the widescale bombardment that windows has; we'll see how it does in comparison now that folks seem to think it's now the better option.
We live in interesting times! :)
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Originally posted by sneaker98:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20060306/bs_nf/41948
Beware, OSX users. You were safe in a small market because the hacker response to OSX was "I don't care?". Apple hasn't had to deal with the widescale bombardment that windows has; we'll see how it does in comparison now that folks seem to think it's now the better option.
We live in interesting times! :)
"I do the job... and then I get paid. Go run your little world."
-Malcolm Reynolds
That contest was pretty much a farce. They gave all the hackers local SSH access to the machine. Hackers trying to get at your Mac from the outside won't have this level of access, unless you're an idiot and give them your username and password, in which case you're gorram moron and deserve to get hacked.
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Originally posted by Liminalosity:
Hey Sneaker... I do know a Mac isn't immune to fragmentation, they just don't much.
There's plenty of advantages to macs over PCs (less now their moving to Intels CISC...), this isn't one of them. Fragmentation is a property of the file management scheme and data through-put. The more you write to the disc the more fragmentation you're going to get.
Most UNIX (which is the basis for OSX) filesystems handle it better than Windows FAT or FAT32, since they tend to have better fitting algorithms, but NTFS is much better than FAT and there's not much in it.
However Windows may (not really looked at the statistics) write to the disk more often due to it's Virtual Memory and Paging schemes. Windows does seem to like writing to the disk.
Oh and I have Photoshop CS2 on my Windows box too
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Quote:I guess busses and progress wait for no man, but this move to Intel may have some affect on the advantages of Mac.
Originally posted by citizen:
Intel
Quote:I figured you have the CStoy, you have shiny and flashy to show for it.
Oh and I have Photoshop CS2 on my Windows box too
Problems-wise in general, I'm happy. My experience with PC's has been significantly less stellar, and I don't see where that gets better... I'm thinking for example about how many times I've watched the random go all mr. fixit with you and Rel and N0S and a few others giving advice to sort a problem. I just don't have the interest in learning that much about how to fix a PC myself, and paying sucks, and waiting sucks, and pestering friends to help sucks. I'd rather pester my friends to go out for a beer.... and talk about something more fun than how to fix an 8-trak computer.Aztecs used the term firefly metaphorically, meaning a spark of knowledge in a world of ignorance or darkness.
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Originally posted by Liminalosity:
I guess busses and progress wait for no man, but this move to Intel may have some affect on the advantages of Mac.
Getting rid of a big chunk of them for one...
Also, since I believe MS, or at least Billy boy, owns the majority share of Apple I can see the possibillity of a Windows for Mac now that the retooling shouldn't be too extreme...
Be afraid, be very afraid.
In Windows no one can hear you Ctrl-Alt-Del...
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
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I’m quite looking forward to the arrival of my Ubuntu Cds. I’ve been reading a lot about it and if I where to go with Linux it seems like the distro for me.
And even if I don’t I will fell a lot better knowing a have another OS sitting on my shelf ready to go if anything happens.
The opensource movement is a very interesting thing.
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Originally posted by citizen: Also, since I believe MS, or at least Billy boy, owns the majority share of Apple I can see the possibillity of a Windows for Mac now that the retooling shouldn't be too extreme...
Windows for Mac! The The Borg-ification of Mac. I can hear the buzz saws now. Oh, Cit, I am wailing with the horror of that idea. yuck. Yeah, this Intel deal makes me nervous, I am the prowd owner of my very own shiny silver mylar hat of deep suspicion of those who seek to wield enormous power, and Billy Boy is pretty high on that list.
Quote:ROFLMbuttO Ok, this one will make my day, thank you very much
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