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

I just recently (few years) started working with Linux to be honest, however WOW. You can write some ridiculously badass automation scripts, and some of the things you can do are just amazing. The only downfall is that I do have to work more at setting even the simplest things up, because drivers and software is not usually released for Linux. That's also why i have my Windows. I havent had I virus on Windows in 4 years and counting, and honestly I'm having no problems with it, it's just not as flexible and easy to use as Linux at some things.

Now where a Mac comes in is right in between those 2, and that's the worst place to be. I have no use for a Mac, and honestly I don't see why normal people would too. You can google how to dual boot Linux and Windows and you are basically set. Then there's also the price, while Linux is free. All in all, Macs to me are nothing more than a PoS on the street because they can't do anything better than I can already do for a lot more money.

 

OS X is a full Unix operating system, so you can write all the same scripts for it, and it has Automator and AppleScript, meaning you can do much more than just shell scripts. With about maybe 30 lines of code, I made a script that can be compiled into an App that you can drag-and-drop pics into, click a button and have them resized to one of three preset sizes. Of course, a similar thing can be done with a shell script, or even piping on the command line, but using drag-and-drop is usually easier since you don't view photos from the terminal. Honestly, apart from gaming and certain special professional applications, I don't see much reason to use Windows.