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| DATE | 2009-01-29 |
| FROM | Ron Guerin
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] can someone here help me?
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Ronny Abraham wrote:
> I solved the main problem of libxml2, but I still want to get away
> from OSX - I don't feel like going through this kind of configuration
> hell again.
When someone says this, they tend to come off sounding like a basher
because of Apple's legendary ease of use, blah blah blah.
But I saw someone setting up a new Macbook recently, and while the
library of HOWTO videos it comes with is indeed impressive, and
something I've since been telling people I wish we had, the fact of the
matter is the video I saw was on setting up Apache/PHP/MySQL on OS X,
and any modern Linux does a far superior job of setting that up than
Apple does. A video that talks you through the entire manual process
including creating icons in the control panel thingy is still an
impressive video, but for a highly inferior user experience than a Linux
user expects. I've seen it done better under Windows, never mind Linux.
This may well be some edge case I happened to witness, but the fact
remains, Apple's reputation exceeds reality every time I've been in a
position to observe one of these things in action.
- Ron
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