I'm a software engineer and sysadmin. On my desk I have a G4 with OS-X, a Gateway with Win2000 and no less than a 4 processor SGI 2100. Oh, and also a Linux box used only as a server. Guess wich one I use ? The PC. Win2k is, once configured properly, an excellent no-nonsense user interface, and once completed with Apache, ActivePerl and Cygwin there's nothing missing.
The Mac is a waste of time: software that you can't configure because you don't have any damn option or it's too 'experimental'... Sugary sweet interface that makes it unusable (semi tranparent windows ?!? Anti aliased [=blured] fonts !?!?!? are they on acid or what ?)
The SGI and linux boxes are good for computations, grepping log files, servers and such but... user pleasure is just not there. Windows come with long delays and plenty of other UIR little things that tell you that it's just not quite right.
As a Embedded Firmware Engineer, I have been given NO OPTION but to use MSOSes at work, with the exception of a few Sun Workstations that - ahem - several people use SIMULTANEOUSLY (6 or more at a time). My forced use of MSOSes is nothing more than a simple Wandering Salesman problem: How to affect the most people in the shortest time/space?
Funny, but the shortest path is through IS Departments! Those same folks that make sure patches are not applied and software updates gather dust on the shelves.
I like & use MacOS X at home. It has a familiar Solaris CDE feel to it. I wouldn't cry if all our PCs where gathered up and donated to some insane as(s)ylum.
Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.
-- Dave Olson
Just one more opinion... (Score:5, Insightful)
The Mac is a waste of time: software that you can't configure because you don't have any damn option or it's too 'experimental'... Sugary sweet interface that makes it unusable (semi tranparent windows ?!? Anti aliased [=blured] fonts !?!?!? are they on acid or what ?)
The SGI and linux boxes are good for computations, grepping log files, servers and such but... user pleasure is just not there. Windows come with long delays and plenty of other UIR little things that tell you that it's just not quite right.
Anyway, that was just one more opinion.
Re:Just one more opinion... (Score:1)
Re:Just one more opinion... (Score:1)
Funny, but the shortest path is through IS Departments! Those same folks that make sure patches are not applied and software updates gather dust on the shelves.
I like & use MacOS X at home. It has a familiar Solaris CDE feel to it. I wouldn't cry if all our PCs where gathered up and donated to some insane as(s)ylum.