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Member since:2006-01-10
You say that if all your Mac OS X apps where available for PC-BSD, you'd switch ... well if you use all your same applications, then why do you switch actually? Well one reason for _me_ why I switched to Linux was the different "software culture" that Linux offers - which is, open source, free, standards conform etc. Of course I can't speak for the whole Linux community, but sorry I don't know if I really want to see e.g. Adobe Photoshop on Linux. Nothing against Photoshop, it no doubt the probably best tool for this purpose out there, but every time I install any closed source or commerical application on Linux, it just "doesn not fit in". You can't update this software with Apt, it often has a complete different HIG, it looks different than the rest of the desktop etc. Well today if I'd d o serious graphics stuff I'd get a Mac and buy Photoshop, but instead of having Photoshop for Linux, I'd prefer an open source solution with similar functionality & similar usability (no, I'm not mentioning Gimp here, this is definitely not an option ;-) )
Tom
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2005-07-06
Linux is not and will never be intended for running Windows applications, or providing a complete lookalike replacement to Windows.
Who said anything about that? Linux needs to get the same, native applications that currently run on Windows; businesses need software, consumers need software; both of them have spent time and money in learning these tools and have many megabytes if not gigabytes of information stored in these said file formats - do you expect them to through away all this valuable information, simply to get the fuzzy feel good factor that comes to running Linux?
I moved to MacOS X from FreeBSD for the very reason why people keep with Windows or MacOS X; its the applications stupid! (comment not directed at you) I can run Microsoft Office 2004, Adobe, Macromedia, MYOB, plus software from Apple such as iTunes, iPhoto, Pages, Keynote etc.
If Linux or FreeBSD (or PC-BSD) came out tomorrow, and it had all the applications that I am running now, in native executables, I would migrate without any problems, but until that day, the only viable platform for me is MacOS X.