"Various reviews I've seen about Ubuntu have attacked the release names (Hoary Hedgehog, Breezy Badger and upcoming Dapper Drake), or the 'ugly' brown GNOME screen background (which is easily changed). I consider such "flaws" to be trivial. When push comes to shove, I want my operating system to 'just work', and in this department Ubuntu delivers."
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Member since:2005-07-06
"I wish I had the money to afford an Apple machine. They´re slick and would fullfill my needs perfectly, but they cost big bucks here in Brazil (Really... I mean it!) so that´s a no go for me. Like dozens of people that I know, I switched to Linux because the price is "affordable" :-) and it offer the features that I need, plus one hundred times the fun of use it instead of MS OSes."
How true. What you say applies to me verbatim.
Member since:2005-07-06
Ditto for Brazil. You took the words from my mouth. Its amazing how Apple apologists always dismiss the price factor when throwing Mac as an option for the average user. And it gets worst when they say that the Mac user base is bigger than Linux´s and that the price is right basing their numbers on the USA market share (as if the USA is the whole world).
I'm actually in New Zealand - our GDP percapita is actually equal to that of Malaysia when looking at it in US$ terms - I'd hardly say that our little island nation is rich to the extreme.
I wish I had the money to afford an Apple machine. They´re slick and would fullfill my needs perfectly, but they cost big bucks here in Brazil (Really... I mean it!) so that´s a no go for me. Like dozens of people that I know, I switched to Linux because the price is "affordable" :-) and it offer the features that I need, plus one hundred times the fun of use it instead of MS OSes.
Here is another shock; even YOU don't make up the majority of Brizilians; most Brizilians are struggling to get by on the meager living the scrap up via the long hours they work - they don't give a toss about computer, their main concern is making sure their family has a roof over their head and food on the table.
So before your start giving me the crap about 'the third world', need I remind you, that you're part of the top 10, possible 20 percent of your country! statistically, you are in a very small minority, so even if Apple computers WERE cheaper in Brazil, the vaast majority STILL couldn't afford them - hell, they'd have to be government subsidised for the average Petro Gonzelus to afford.
Member since:2005-07-06
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"*NIX users can scream and cry till the cows come home, but as so long as the end users requirements aren't being met, the next best alternative to Windows will be Mac."
I could even "sort of" agree if the price Mac hardware wasn't twice (or more) expensive as generic x86 hardware.
It will be a cold day in hell before you'll convince people in this country (Italy) to spend twice as much just in order to have a different OS.
Ditto for Brazil. You took the words from my mouth. Its amazing how Apple apologists always dismiss the price factor when throwing Mac as an option for the average user. And it gets worst when they say that the Mac user base is bigger than Linux´s and that the price is right basing their numbers on the USA market share (as if the USA is the whole world).
I wish I had the money to afford an Apple machine. They´re slick and would fullfill my needs perfectly, but they cost big bucks here in Brazil (Really... I mean it!) so that´s a no go for me. Like dozens of people that I know, I switched to Linux because the price is "affordable" :-) and it offer the features that I need, plus one hundred times the fun of use it instead of MS OSes.