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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Just had to put my two bits in, I also was spoiled by the elegance that the Amiga was. Still have several I kick off every so often to remember what personal computing power is supposed to have been like.
Tried BeOS Pers. Ed. about a year ago. Anyday of the week would I choose it over Winblowz... if it had a future. A shame, really. It, also, was elegant and powerful at the same time, just like the Amiga. Almost bought it but couldn't bring myself to learning dead OS no matter how much I liked it.
I'm writing this on my Mandrake home server. The author is correct about it's stability and utilitarianism. But he's right, just don't ask linux to be a desktop computer, not just yet. New Amiga OS is supposedly xBSD based, guess I'll have to see.
Also have an iMacDV running OS9.2. I love it. I don't have to tinker with it, I don't have to fight with it, I bought it to do video and have made a little extra $change$ using it. I just tell it what to do and it does it! But I never expected to dig into it and tinker with it.
I have played with OSX at work a bit. I like it, and will get it around the time 10.2 is released. I fully expect it to become my OS of choice in about a year or so. (Bring on the apps!)
Currently building Athlon1900 unit - what will be my last Windows Box. Putting ME on it, (place flak here); it runs all 5 of my cards without arguing. I will not continue to put money into M$ marketing Dept. just so they can push an inferior product onto an unsuspecting public. No way - no how - end of story! If I had really known how much I would have to spend on M$ related junk just to keep it "up to date" I would have realized my wallet would have been better off upgrading my 10 year old Amiga!
What make a good OS? Simple, does it do what you want it to, and if it doesn't, how many resources is it going to take to make it do it? I used to work retail computer sales and have saved many people many $$$ asking them that question when they asked me "Do I need to upgrade?" The same applies here. If using a particular OS satisfies your reasoning for using a computer in the first place, then use it.