Linked by Jack Perry on Thu 3rd Jun 2004 17:55 UTC
It's all Waterloo-Maple's fault, really: if they had maintained a version of their computer algebra system for the Amiga, I wouldn't have found it necessary to switch to Mac. Or maybe it's Commodore's fault for mismanaging themselves into oblivion; I don't know. Either way, I became painfully aware three years ago that my little Amiga would no longer satisfy my computing needs. I needed a new home computer.
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Macs are very expensive here in Brazil and we don't like to change from a software monopoly (M$) for a hardware/software monopoly (Apple). Linux is FREEDOM and many people didn't understand its importance. Mac is sexy but it is a proprietary and closed hardware, with programmed obsolescence.
My university have many scientific labs with almost 100% linux on PC beige boxes. Before we used many Solaris/SunOS Sun workstations to do the same job and linux with Pentium 4 or Athlon machines is faster to do calculations and much more versatile. We changed from the ugly CDE to KDE/GNOME desktops. Linux can not have all the "cosmetic" features of MacOS X but it is free, run on chep hardware, it is easier to install LaTeX, Scilab, Octave, etc softwares (you don't have to "UNIXize" your system to run unix applications).
I am a happy user of 3 linux desktops, 1 linux notebook and 1 linux PDA (an iPAQ converted from M$ PocketPC to Familiar linux). I see many "sexy" Mac hardware in shopping centers at very expensive prices but I don't see a rational argument to buy Apple hardware whe I can do the same job with a cheap linux/grey PC, specially academic activities (run Matlab, LaTex, write scientific papers, etc).