Linked by alcibiades on Wed 10th May 2006 19:40 UTC
I started out as a Mac user in about 1985 in a world which will be totally unfamiliar to almost all readers of OSNews. You wrote out your stuff by longhand, and a secretary typed it on a word processor. If you were lucky and able to manage it, you could dictate it. But you did not dictate into a dictating machine, because these were big heavy and expensive. You dictated it directly to someone who could 'take shorthand'. If you had a PC, it ran DOS. You looked for your files, and moved them around, started applications, one at a time, from the command line, and the command line was not pretty, it was green on black.
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2006-05-11
As a former mac zealot, I enjoyed the article very much. I'm pleased to say that I learned from my former zealotry.
Now I use GNU/Linux. Most of the reasons I prefer GNU/Linux are completely meaningless to most other people. Most of the reasons I used to suggest Macs were preferable turned out to be meaningless to most other folks too.
No platform is "the best" - they all have pros and cons.
It's nice that Apple is using commodity hardware these days. Too late for me, but nice.