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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I may committing sacrilege posting this here, but as an end user I was never impressed with BeOS. To me, the OS GUI looked plain, and was not as intuitive as I had hoped. And of course I could do just about nothing in the real world with it because quite simply, essentially no software I wanted ran on it. It was fast, but fast at not doing anything I wanted it to do.
Linux was just a pain in the neck. After fighting with it for days, I got it installed, only to discover that it was as if everything written for it was built specifically to be counterintuitive, and visually unappealling.
I ran OS X.1 on a friend's iBook and a couple of weeks later I ditched my tweaked out Windows 2000 PIII 600 384 MB DVD wireless LAN endowed notebook. OS X.1 was simply an epiphany. Gorgeous, intuitive, and I could actually do my work on it. There are some niggling issues of course, but IMO, OS X is the absolute best OS EVER created, with no other OS coming even close.