Mac OS X v. Linux

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* Eric Dunbar 

| It seems like your "gosh darn awful" experience was due to your
| inexperience with Mac and not due to Mac itself. Consider how many
| *years* of experience you have on Windows/Linux and contrast that to
| one month on Mac! Plus, there's a whole smorgasbord of tools available
| for Mac. Bare Bones Software makes a WONDERFUL text editor called Text
| Wrangler that is free (as in beer)
| (<http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/index.shtml>).
| NOTHING, and I mean, NOTHING that I have seen that is "Free" (as in
| GNU) comes even close to Text Wrangler for high powered text
| editing/processing (NOT word processing). In-built grep and a tonne of
| other (fairly) useful features.

True, I've only been using Mac OS for about ten to twelve years.  I
have still to find an editor which is anywhere as good as emacs.
Emacs is nice and both newbie and user-friendly, IME.  Anyhow,
choosing your operating system based on the available set of editors
means you are very, very picky about your editor.  Most free software
editors run fine on multiple platforms.

| Plus, Free (GNU, etc.) software is widely available for Mac, and,
| besides, do you actually TAKE ADVANTAGE of the Freeness of the
| software — do you change the code and recompile the software? Or, is
| your use of Free software merely as a tool?

Yes, I change software both as part of my job and as part of my hobby.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are      : :' :
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