OSX is not perfect for anybody [LWN.net]

OSX is not perfect for anybody

Posted Feb 7, 2012 22:46 UTC (Tue) by kragilkragil2 (guest, #76172)
In reply to: OSX is not perfect for anybody by danieldk
Parent article: Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu

Bla, you are obviously one of those über-happy Apple customers that post all over the internet.
You said it was perfect and I just don't see it. If they need PowerPoint, Premiere etc they need Windows or OSX, sure. If they want to play big budget games they need Windows and OSX isn't perfect anymore.

If like most people they just want to surf the web, write letters and manage their photos and they don't want to be bothered with updates and viruses they can run Linux just fine. A properly setup Linux box is the most worry-free computer you will find, no terminals involved. So I can also claim it is perfection, can I? My extended family is proof. I had no instabilities on good hardware ( where are your bugreports? :-P I want to see evidence)

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OSX is not perfect for anybody

Posted Feb 8, 2012 16:49 UTC (Wed) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]

Agreed, and same experiences here (happy Ubuntu LTS users all around).

I also didn't personally get to enjoy OS X during my half a year of occasional use, it felt cluttered compared to Ubuntu and it was not the easiness of usage utopia it's said to be.

But yes it's annoying that the OS X is the best and only truth folks are everywhere, especially since a) world is not black-and-white and b) it seems ignorant to only praise Apple that has so many negative sides for many average Joes, even if OS X is an ok software to use (Apple and only Apple) computer with.

Like said, too bad most people don't get to experience proper off-the-shelf Linux experience in the PC world.