[OT] Re: Is Ubuntu safe to try

[Ante Karamatić]

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 09:03 -0400, Larry Grover wrote:

> (1) Set up printing to use a CUPS printer on a linux box.  This was 
> absolutely impossible for me to accomplish under OS X.  I finally got 
> it working by copying the config files over to OS X from a linux 
> (Ubuntu) system.  Setting up Ubuntu to use the CUPS printer was a 
> breeze, by comparison.

Then I don't have to tell you how I lost my mind setting up printers on
OSX via IPP. Even Windows have better support, and OSX uses CUPS! Those
guys at Apple are di**heads.


(9) Very, very, ultra very, bad SMB support. Check this out: on all
Windows and Linux boxes simple copying over SMB protocol works how it's
supposed to. On every OSX it works like crap. Same file, same wires,
even in the same time (with diff wires, of course). Nothing helps.
Linux/Windows copys at 50mb/s, OSX at 50kb/s. Go figure.

(10) On one location I have file server with couple of TB disk space.
Windows and Linux mounts share and work like a charm. OSX's samba is
totally broken and can't mount share - too big filesystem.

Well, no, is there anybody who could explain me how the hell does Linux,
FreeBSD and OSX uses same programs (Samba/CUPS) and in Linux and BSD
case it works how it should, but on Mac it doesn't?!

> I could go on and on, but in general, the problems I have with OS X 
> boil down to:  (1) poor OS X interoperability with linux  (to be fair, 
> I think Apple only cares about interoperability with windows, but 
> that's of absolutely no use to me), (2) OS X "just works", but only if 
> you want to do exactly what Apple thinks you should do and do it in 
> exactly the way Apple wants; if you don't, then prepare for big 
> frustrations.

Apple thinks only of them self. Sometimes I think they don't care about
their users. And don't let me start with Office on OSX. That's a place
you just don't want to go!

I hope I will never have to see or work on OSX again. This OS stinks.

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