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<blockquote data-quote="walkerj" data-source="post: 967604" data-attributes="member: 9385"><p>Well, this would be right up my alley. Back in Feb. of 2005 I too was a die-hard Linux guy, coming from years of admining Solaris machines and used a Linux (specifically RedHat) box as my desktop and home computer. I did everything mostly in the command line and bash. At that time Macs were priced out of my range and it was better for me at the time to build my own boxes and put a distro that I could customize to my liking. I knew at the time that Mac OS X was really a UNIX with a cool GUI on top but I had better things to do with my money.</p><p></p><p>Until Apple released the Mini. With that came the great Mac OS X experiment of 2005. Could I replace my powerhouse AMD RedHat box with this little machine? What would I miss? Would I be beholden to proprietary whims and corporate behaviors that would p*ss me off? Only way to find out was to whip out the wallet and take the plunge.</p><p></p><p>Answer: Unqualified success. Oh sure there were little things like the Mac OS X of the time didn't have multiple desktops, one had to kind of surrender one's self to The Apple Way of doing things. But what I've found over time is that the Apple Way of doing things is the Right way. Very seldom crashed, was a pleasure to use, and the need to configure XF86config files and others went away. Once I put on the included (but not installed by default) development tools I had a C compiler and could use the DarwinPorts, which made it so I could easily get command line stuff working that made it so all the bash scripts I've written over the years that do useful things could port right over. I still had my good old friend in Terminal, and not in the weird way one has with cygwin on Windows. Eventually with the release of Leopard came Spaces, and I then had that multiple desktop I had been getting with an open source hack called...can't remember now but it was v-something-desktops.</p><p></p><p>I've since surrendered my music collection to iTunes, have several iPods and an iPhone. My entire household is Apple everything. I'm on my third Mac and my wife soon will have an iPhone to go with her all-Apple computing needs to compliment her Macbook and iPod. We even use all Apple keyboards and mice. Only things not-Apple are our monitors. Because those things are still way 'spensive.</p><p></p><p>Is Apple perfect? No. Do I make a living with my Apple computers? No. My employer supplies me with Windows computers to do my job which is maintain Oracle databases on AIX UNIX big-iron. Does it make my personal computing not feel like work? Yes. Hence this long post. Sure I could put a latest distro of Linux on a virtual machine or one of my employer supplied computers or even see what is all up with Windows 7. But now that I have Macs in my world I just don't care. I don't care about driver issues, don't care about haters, don't care about how Apple users (fanbois anyone?) are perceived out in the ethereal world. I have what I consider the awesomest computer ever, and I've been working with these things since "computers" were considered large machines that needed special purpose A/C equipped rooms and were called things like "VAX" and "Cray", and "IBM-XXXX" with "DASD" and you "IPL'd" them.</p><p></p><p>And I can still vi (or emacs) my text files and scripts to do useful stuff. Or tar up and gzip things that I'm not using at the moment. If I need to 'make' something that's still there. The find command is the same as it's always been. And as a friend of mine in the business once put it while writing bash, bourne, or korn shell scripts - "we be awk'n and a sed'n to get stuff done" within the command line. All still possible with a Mac, while living here in The Future of personal computing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="walkerj, post: 967604, member: 9385"] Well, this would be right up my alley. Back in Feb. of 2005 I too was a die-hard Linux guy, coming from years of admining Solaris machines and used a Linux (specifically RedHat) box as my desktop and home computer. I did everything mostly in the command line and bash. At that time Macs were priced out of my range and it was better for me at the time to build my own boxes and put a distro that I could customize to my liking. I knew at the time that Mac OS X was really a UNIX with a cool GUI on top but I had better things to do with my money. Until Apple released the Mini. With that came the great Mac OS X experiment of 2005. Could I replace my powerhouse AMD RedHat box with this little machine? What would I miss? Would I be beholden to proprietary whims and corporate behaviors that would p*ss me off? Only way to find out was to whip out the wallet and take the plunge. Answer: Unqualified success. Oh sure there were little things like the Mac OS X of the time didn't have multiple desktops, one had to kind of surrender one's self to The Apple Way of doing things. But what I've found over time is that the Apple Way of doing things is the Right way. Very seldom crashed, was a pleasure to use, and the need to configure XF86config files and others went away. Once I put on the included (but not installed by default) development tools I had a C compiler and could use the DarwinPorts, which made it so I could easily get command line stuff working that made it so all the bash scripts I've written over the years that do useful things could port right over. I still had my good old friend in Terminal, and not in the weird way one has with cygwin on Windows. Eventually with the release of Leopard came Spaces, and I then had that multiple desktop I had been getting with an open source hack called...can't remember now but it was v-something-desktops. I've since surrendered my music collection to iTunes, have several iPods and an iPhone. My entire household is Apple everything. I'm on my third Mac and my wife soon will have an iPhone to go with her all-Apple computing needs to compliment her Macbook and iPod. We even use all Apple keyboards and mice. Only things not-Apple are our monitors. Because those things are still way 'spensive. Is Apple perfect? No. Do I make a living with my Apple computers? No. My employer supplies me with Windows computers to do my job which is maintain Oracle databases on AIX UNIX big-iron. Does it make my personal computing not feel like work? Yes. Hence this long post. Sure I could put a latest distro of Linux on a virtual machine or one of my employer supplied computers or even see what is all up with Windows 7. But now that I have Macs in my world I just don't care. I don't care about driver issues, don't care about haters, don't care about how Apple users (fanbois anyone?) are perceived out in the ethereal world. I have what I consider the awesomest computer ever, and I've been working with these things since "computers" were considered large machines that needed special purpose A/C equipped rooms and were called things like "VAX" and "Cray", and "IBM-XXXX" with "DASD" and you "IPL'd" them. And I can still vi (or emacs) my text files and scripts to do useful stuff. Or tar up and gzip things that I'm not using at the moment. If I need to 'make' something that's still there. The find command is the same as it's always been. And as a friend of mine in the business once put it while writing bash, bourne, or korn shell scripts - "we be awk'n and a sed'n to get stuff done" within the command line. All still possible with a Mac, while living here in The Future of personal computing. [/QUOTE]
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