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| DATE | 2006-05-23 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Balug-talk] [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Its a sorry day for The Linux Journal
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On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:43:59AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:22:36PM -0700, Bill Ward wrote:
> > That said, I'm not claiming that the latest Linux desktops are better
> > than OS X. On the contrary, my wife just got a fancy new MacBook Pro
> > and it's great. It has a lot of fancy features which Linux can't come
> > close to matching.
>
> I'm curious... like what?
>
> I have a Mac Mini at home, and it's quite an uncomfortable thing to use.
> I _loved_ Mac System 7, but I doubt I could go back to that after years of
> KDE joy. OS X's underlying operating system capabilities are far superior
> to Classic, but I haven't been sold on the fancy new UI, yet.
> It's admittedly WAY saner and more consistent than Windows XP, which I
> use at work, but that's not the comparison I'm interested in. Pretty much
> anything is a better UI than Windows, in my opinion.
>
> I'm not alone in my household... my wife Melissa has an iPod and
> figured iTunes would be far superior to gtkPod, but I heard random
> swear words, and "this doesn't make any sense!" fly out of her while
> she was trying to use it. :^/
>
>
> > But the Linux desktop (I have an Ubuntu laptop) is
> > great too. It doesn't crash, ever (well, there are occasional power
> > management issues with suspend/hibernate, but I don't think it's any
> > worse than what you described on your PowerBook).
>
> I'm considering switching from Debian Unstable to Kubuntu in the coming
> weeks. I was very impressed with Kubuntu when I ran it as a Live CD on
> Melissa's laptop when her HDD was off being RMA'd.
>
>
> > And while my mom loves her G4 iBook, I wouldn't dare inflict a Linux
> > desktop on her.
>
> Conversely, my dad seems to love his clunky old PC running Debian and KDE.
> A replacement for his old System 9 Mac would have been fine, but let's
> see... $50 for a PC that I can throw Linux on, versus $???? for a Mac. :^/
>
>
> --
> -bill!
> bill-at-newbreedsoftware.com
> http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/
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