Why Macs are better than PC's

[Taliesin]

Mac OS has had it's fair share of problems. (cough, AQUA)

lol... I use all 3 OSes (linux, Windows, and Mac) but I definitely have a preference for Windows. First of all, because I'm a gamer, I get games when they first come out, instead of 6 months later. I use the Mac mostly to troubleshoot for my father-in-law, who uses nothing but Macs in his business. So far, I spend more time working on his Macs than I do on my own father's Win2K office. It isn't due to lack of knowledge, because I've owned a Mac since the classic, but because for some reason I get the strangest issues with Macs. We did fine on 9.2, but when we went to OSX Aqua, everything fell apart. It's the Windows ME of the Mac world. When we went to Tiger things finally settled down a bit, but then I had 3 hard drive failures in one month.

To be fair, my problems with Windows can be just as bizarre. I installed an 802.11g card on my desktop running XP Pro and had to do a full format and reinstallation of the OS. It would not recognize my card and my hard drives at the same time.

Linux is my least favorite OS, but has all the right potentials. I use Cedega to play Windows games, but I hate drivers in Linux. Plug and play, anyone?

 

[vibrokatana]

Linux is my least favorite OS, but has all the right potentials. I use Cedega to play Windows games, but I hate drivers in Linux. Plug and play, anyone?

It really depends on the distro and how much you know about linux, I have set up every piece of hardware that I own in linux, including a few wireless cards(what is up with linux getting the best wireless signal?).

Linux is PnP it will add the device, but for security reasons does not automatically mount it. You can make scripts that will add stuff like usb keys as soon as they are inserted, but I love doing it manually in CLI.

Also try out a different kernel, I am using beyond sources now, used nitro before they merched with archck. And manaully add in your devices and customize the kernel to your system.

Linux isnt designed to be friendly, its like a introvert, you have to spend some time with it and tell it what you want. Get to know the CLI like the back of your hand, it is your best friend

And also never issue the commands :
# rm -r /*
# killall -u root

what is fun is watching your interfaces with the grep command, choose something like /dev/mouse0 or /dev/input/mouse and move your mouse around the screen. Wanna see whats playing in your audio /dev/dsp. have a tvtuner /dev/v4l/video0. I usually record stuff manually with: # grep /dev/v4l/video0 > record.mpg

Linux is FuN!