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Plaupius on 03 April 2009
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vlad321 said:
Plaupius said:
vlad321 said:

 

That's why I run a Windows/Linux machine. When it comes down to it, Macs are stuck between Linux and Windows. Theyhave just about all disadvantages of all, and none of the big benefits of either.

What do you think are the disadvantages of Linux and Windows that OS X has, and what are the big benefits that it is missing?

Miniature software library in comparison to Windows, and being completely open souced so you can do whatever the hell you want with it (even ruin your hardware if you so wished).

 

Ok, I see your points although I personally think almost the opposite, that Macs have (almost) the best of closed and open source. Big parts of the OS X are actually open source, but big parts are not. I guess I tend to be more pragmatic in that I don't think open source has that much intrinsic value, it's more about what are the end results that matters. And in that, for some things open source is the superior way but for other things it is not.

About the software library, I do agree that Windows has a much bigger library. Luckily MS Office is available for OS X, if it wasn't that would be a huge hole right there. For other things pretty much everything I need is available for OS X so I'm good, but not everybody is as lucky, although you can run Parallels or BootCamp or whatever and have your Windows software at hand if you so want. I don't have any experience of that so I can't comment on how good things run on Parallels, BootCamp of course is as fast as normal Windows but I at least would have to have to reboot everytime I need something running on Windows.