[NTLUG:Discuss] Mac v. Linux

[MontyS@videopost.com]

This is just my opinion...

Mac OSX should be looked at like Linux-lite.  Mac doesn't have the toolset
that you are use to seeing in your standard linux distribution.  However,
Macs are quite stable, and their GUI is very user friendly.  Their
os/hardware package is far superior to Microsoft's offerings.  Heck, the
same could be said during Apple's Classic days.  Expecially 9.x.

If I could get a desktop system that is Mac OSX based for the price of a
Windows box, I would do it in a heartbeat.  I bet you most others would as
well.  It all just depends on how Apple prices out their hardware.  That has
been their problem all along.  Clearly they know how to market their
products...

At the end of the day, I wonder if much will change at all.  I doubt that
Apple is going to become a software-only company.  They are still going to
require 64bit dual-processors, they will still put their systems in artsy
boxes, and they will still mark up their prices by a huge amount, although
they have become more reasonable as time has passed.

The only way Apple will become a factor in the desktop market is if they
sell their os in a box, and you can install it on generic hardware.  Order a
Dell computer with Mac OSX software.  Other than that, this is just a repeat
of a few years ago when Apple left Motorola for IBM.

I still think that most people would move over to Linux if it was easier to
install and get around.  I mean easy for non-technical people.  For
instance, to do simple things like play Quicktimes or WMP files, you have to
jump through hoops.  MP3's?  More hoops.  These are just examples of what
normal, everyday people want to be able to do by a click of the mouse.

That being said, let's face it:  The companies that have the money to do
major marketing, like the RedHat's, IBM's Novell's have seemed to give up
trying to market their wares to the desktop user.  One could easily argue
they never even tried.  The vast majority of people have never seen a Mac.
Even fewer have seen Linux.

Oh well, I digress.  Again, just my opinion...

Monty


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Brown [mailto:dutch_fedora at comcast.net]
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 1:23 PM
To: NTLUG Discussion List
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Mac v. Linux


Well the hoopla is a hoopin' over the Mac to Intel move. Been reading some 
articles today about how this may impact Linux. Some of the "pundents" seem 
to see this as more a challenge to Linux than to MS as Mac OS is the "best
of 
breed" Unix system. 

Now I have used Mac ever so lightly and as such I cannot directly speak to 
this as fact or fiction, but would love to read some input from "actual" 
users on how this may impact Linux.

Thoughts and insight are appreciated!

AB

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