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Plaupius on 17 April 2009
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vlad321 said:
Plaupius said:
vlad321 said:
@plaupius
It was never about ease of use. Linux is not even cose to being easy to use at the start. The point is functionality. I can just DO more with a Windows and Linux sstem than with a Mac system. Ease of use or not, if i can't do as much ease of use is pointless.

Actually, the ease of use is the key issue here. If you totally disregard it, you can to ANYTHING and EVERYTHING a Windows or Linux can on a Mac, you just need to do it all yourself. Pick up XCode and start hammering code.

How much have you actually used OS X? Honestly?

 

I had to use OSX my entire last year in college, since my brother needed the windows laptop. It's nice and easy to get into, looks pretty yes. First I lamented playing games as much, then I lamented the fact SOME apps didn't have an equivalent, but I got around that with enough digging (ease of use?). Then I just lamented the utter openness of Linux (though I would have been one of those whose HW had gotten fried with that driver). The point is I got by with using it, I just lacked small obscure apps which no one would port from Windows, or the quickness of a nicely  modified Linux (the linux boxes at work are friken AMAZING). Also I don't belive macs have been prooven in large-scale networks have they? By large-scale I mean corporations with offices all over the world. Does Apple even have a corporation department?

Ok. Before switching over to Mac, I used Windows since I think 3.0, though at the time I was just a kid. The only program I have missed and haven't found a good alternative to is IrfanView, for everything else I have either the same program (such as Opera, FF and Microsoft Office) or an OS X alternative, some of which are about the same as the Windows counterparts, some of which are better. I'm actually kind of curious, what kind of apps where you missing?

About the Macs and the enterprise, I'm not really sure if Apple has an enteprise division, but it is clearly not their priority. They have made some advances in that direction during the past few years, but nothing really major to show their commitment, sadly.