[NTLUG:Discuss] Mac v. Linux

[Kevin Hulse]

Quoting Terry <trryhend at gmail.com>:

> On 6/7/05, MontyS at videopost.com <MontyS at videopost.com> wrote:
> > 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

    You mean like a minimac?

    Yeah, it's kind of interesting. However, it also has some significant
limitations that other similarly cheap PC's options don't have. The bookpc
I had around 2000 was a much better engineering tradeoff.

    Unless this crowd is mobbing Frys to get at mini-macs, I wouldn't expect
them to get anymore excited about an x86 Mac. The mini shows that it's probably
not the PPC that tends to keep Mac prices higher for similarly flexible
configurations.

[deletia]
> > 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.

    I never had that problem either, unless you consider the process of
installing ANY application a "hoop".

    ...not that decoding a PROPRIETARY file format is a "simple thing".

    Software vendors tend to go out of their way to make this sort of
activity unnecessarily complicated. Although things like mplayer have
routed around this "problem" quite nicely.

[deletia]

     Now, mp3's are just dead simple. Even on a 486 it was easy to get
encoding and playback done. You could even do both at once and not skip
a bit. You could even burn them back out (to CD) and not make a coaster.

-- 
...as if the ability to run Cubase ever made or broke a platform.
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