pistoguitar wrote:... what's the opinon you're carrying on?
You say that modern M$ and Apple OSes are rubbish, and of course Linux is rubbish too, and even moralistic and sentimental stuff... so what's the alternative?...
the point is experience - I've seen the Mac OS grow - from a tiny 128 KB file to an almost filled up DVD consisting of 50k or more files...
I've mentioned it frequently - the system was damn close to perfect - in fact it was so close, that people were happy
using it.
They didn't 'upgrade' or change anything, because it was productive and required almost no education or service.
Apple even got into financial trouble... not into a serious threat for the company's existence, but it did hurt... and Steven is a smart a**, you bet.
Only a decade before he had proclaimed 'the computer for the rest of us', now he turned us into cash cows with the very same passion. Today he's a boring old fart (in public appearance) but who cares - regarding his revenues.
...Open Office, as a last example, works as a mule, and I've noticed it takes about 1/3 of disk space compared to M$ Office... and can't find that difference on performance.
Is that so bad actually?
what's 1 third ? 200 megabytes ?
I have an old package from the M68K days, that does effectively the same with just 2 megabytes of objectcode and fits on 2 floppy disks.
running that software in 16 MB on a 32Mhz machine is as fast as 'office work can get' - meaning you won't loose time due to the performance of the machine, even though the latter is just 1% of the power of current boxes.
And mind you
all that software could run from whatever storage location was present, no install was required.
Do you have an idea how many hours (in those years) I did
not waste in front of a screen waiting for a procedure to terminate ?
Did you know that you could connect a network printer or fileserver to an Apple workgroup without any action on the client side ?
The network autoconfigured itself within a couple of minutes.
Within more than 10 years I haven't lost a single file, as everything was easy to recover.
But during the last 2 years I've paid almost 5k Euro for professional data recovery services...
If someone talks progress
I expect more today than I see, because I have already seen it implemented in a better way.
That's the difference.
I don't call it rubbish because I'm an arrogant a**hole - I'm an eyewitness, not someone talking about hear-say
Honestly I'd be the first one to pay a reasonable amount for a real smart Linux thingy - the problem is, it doesn't exist. And it never will - it's all techie fiddling because it's by people who seem to see it as a kind of game.
I make my living by that sh*t - don't wanna have that at home, too
Do yourself a favour and install a Mac - it's easy to fake as you could use an external USB drive (leaving the internal disk untouched)
The compare the procedure to the Linux typical stuff - be alert for any hints that you're dealing with a 'unix-type' OS - you won't find them.
That's user friendly - even if Apple as a company s*cks in many domains (compared to their previous achievements)
... and don't forget... my earnings from servicing people with IT trouble aren't that bad at all...
cheers, Tom
