Linked by Scot Hacker on Mon 17th Dec 2001 17:34 UTC
The story of how a BeOS refugee (and not just everyone, but the author of the 'BeOS Bible' book) lost faith in the future of computing, resigned himself to Windows but found himself bored silly, tore out half his hair at the helm of a Linux box, then rediscovered the joy of computing in MacOSX. Scot Hacker will describe his personal adventures with today's operating systems after he was set out to find an alternative to his beloved (but with no apparent future) BeOS. Update: Make sure you read the second part of the article, a rebutal, found here.
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...really good article. I found it really interesting and learned a lot.
On a related note I had a good wander round some techy shops at the weekend and found myself wishing I could afford a Mac, with a nice cinema screen. Those monitors are georgeous. A brief look at OSX left me with the impression that it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be, and that was only OSX.0.3 (or something).
BTW, do any BeOS users know what Scot is referring to RE. that workaround for the ctrl-tab app switching thing? I'd like to be able to switch between the current and the last used apps - like, as he suggests, Windows or Linux.
Cheers,
Mike