I upgraded my laptop to the latest Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon a few days ago only to be greeted with an additional feel of polish and goodness. Read more for our mini preview.
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Member since:2006-01-03
What makes OSX a lot better than Vista? It eats tons of resources, it is not that fast, it does not have the games, and it is controlled by a company that is as closed and as tight as Microsoft.
And it wants to herd you in their way of doing things, where everything works transparently as long as you do it EXACTLY their way, but dissidence is VERY frowned upon. iTV streams Apple-formatted video from iTMS through an Apple Airport. The Airport uses encryption to impede streaming music from anything but iTunes. The iPod can only be managed from iTunes. The iPhone won't let you install any third party software, or even let you listen to your own music as a ringtone without paying them $1 for the privilege. iWork uses their own, proprietary, undocumented file formats, and deliberately precludes using OpenDocument.
In the end, their hardware is cute, and their software is extremely good looking, but they are as tightly controlling as they can afford to be, even more so than Microsoft.
Member since:2005-11-10
Try owning a Mac. Experience will show you that OS X is better than Vista. iWork is just XML. It's parsable, it's not encumbered with weird binary blobs and patents. It's proprietary in the same way a printed book is proprietary. You can read it, and you could write it back out easily enough, you just don't have access to the same printer they did. OOXML on the other hand would be like trying to reverse engineer a book of barcodes.
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2005-07-06
Who said you weren't happy? I said if you were unhappy with Windows, assuming Sony Vegas (or a feature equivalent) was available on MacOS X, then maybe that is the better platform to move to than Linux.