Linux vs MacOS X

**chevy** · January 14th, 2003, 12:50 PM

MacLuv wrote:

Steve Jobs, not Apple, is style before substance. The day Linux gets a consumer desktop worthy of download, that's it for Apple. That's the way I see it, anyway. No flaming me. I'm nice.

But Linux is a system, based on Unix, a bit better finished than row BSD, a bit less open, but nothing like a company. Apple is a company and a brand, spending hundreds of millions of $ each year to adapt to user's demand and make its MacOS better.

Linux will be used by people owning computers. Some peope may pay $100 to buy a Linux install. But Linux for the masses does not exist. Sorry, it does exist, but it's not Linux, it's another Unix derivative: it's MacOS X.

**Giaguara** · January 14th, 2003, 12:55 PM

Linux does exist.. it's not bad but it's not user friendly.

Once i can install something clicking on it and then draggin the app to the apps like in mac, and unsintall stuff dragging it to trash (and not rm etc) i'll consider it. Or, i would consider it if i had a pc. (which i don't so os x is enough).

If Macromedia and Adobe would do its apps also for Linux there would also be more potential linuxist (among the pc users that are stuck in windows because of some graphical programs).

**wtmcgee** · January 14th, 2003, 12:59 PM

i just find it silly that people make it out to be like 'linux' is one megaproject. in fact, there are so many distros and different installs, it's not like LINUX is one OS that can take down anyone. heck, linux is technically just the kernel. linux+kde/gnome+apps+some linux compnay packaging it all together = a linux distro that's supposed to take down mac os.

i like linux OSes. i use debian, and to some degree, slackware. but i think it's funny when journalists say that 'linux' is going to take down _____ OS. say redhat is going to take down mac OS, or mandrake, whatever. just a pet peeve of mine.

**hazmat** · January 14th, 2003, 01:04 PM

Originally posted by Giaguara
Linux does exist.. it's not bad but it's not user friendly.

"Unix IS user-friendly. It's just picky about whom it chooses as its friends."

Once i can install something clicking on it and then draggin the app to the apps like in mac, and unsintall stuff dragging it to trash (and not rm etc) i'll consider it. Or, i would consider it if i had a pc. (which i don't so os x is enough).

Can't something like Nautilus do these things?

If Macromedia and Adobe would do its apps also for Linux there would also be more potential linuxist (among the pc users that are stuck in windows because of some graphical programs).

So you admit that some people use Windows for valid reasons, yet you still bash them and block them from seeing
your tattoo?

**Giaguara** · January 14th, 2003, 01:13 PM

Hey, Linux users *do* see my tattoo ...

**gigi** · January 14th, 2003, 01:19 PM

The day Linux gets a consumer desktop worthy of download, that's it for Apple.

Well that won't be for good few years yet. Linux is great ....my second favourite OS but i cant see my ganny installing it for some time to come.

Besides I think Linux is more of a threat to Microsoft than to Apple.

**themacko** · January 14th, 2003, 01:20 PM

I personally don't understand why everyone has to compare Apple to Microsoft, or Mac OSX to Linux or Windows. Can't we just be happy that we are Mac users? I know I am, I'm happy that I have a computer that works and a company that seems to care about it's customers. Those are things I didn't have when I used Windows and wouldn't have if I used Linux (if I knew how to use Linux).