Linux vs MacOSX

[Q-collective]

First of all: congrats in digging up a year old thread.

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[akiross]

Umm i didn't knew about quality of apple's code - but actually linux code is confused too, respect ie freebsd.

Anyway i was talking about features: i prefer linux but some macosx's features do their job very well. First of all the graphic system (oh well, xorg maybe accelerated too, but the objects handling isn't the same i think) lots of features of apple engine aren't present - or are under development - on xorg.

Oh well, benchmarks can say what they want, but my gentoo run faster than macosx I use everyday desktop apps for X, and on macosx it's slower. I don't know why, but this is.
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[Wietze]

linux > macOS

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[iainvt]

I have to say something here, I use both Gentoo and Mac osx (tiger), what ever anyone says about osx, it well, just looks loverly, why anyone using a computer all day as I do would clunk around in M$ XP God only knows.

Linux is good, excellent in fact, kde-4 with vector based graphics will rival quartz, in the mean time osx vs kde-3.4 in linux, well kde just doesn't look as good! Yes you can make it look sort of similar, however it just isn't.

The above is only my own personal opinion, please dont flame back trying to ram an opinion down my throat and accept that everyone is different, we all like differnet things, yes we all accept Linux is better at some things to osx and windows and then the same is true in reverse also.
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[Cinder6]

Old thread, but I'll add my 2 cents here.

First off, I dislike OSX's UI (Aqua). While I do like eyecandy, I hate how everything is so gray (call it brushed metal if you will; it's gray), and I abhor having a menu bar that acts for every window and resides at the top of the screen.

Secondly, it just isn't customizable enough, and I don't like the fact you can only use it on Apple hardware--that cheap-looking, ricer-wannabe crap that's literally full of holes (PowerMac chassis).
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[mikegpitt]

Ok gotta put in my 2 cents. I got an iBook about 2 years ago and was excited to try out OSX. After a while I just got so frustrated. I think the default look and feel is alright, but that's what you are stuck with. Apps that I like using were hard to get to work in OSX. Don't think that just cause it's BSD based you can find all your Linux progs and compile them and they will work fine. OpenOffice support was really bad too.

I get frustrated with people who say "OSX has all the unix tools I need". Most likely these are people who love to open a terminal and type in 'ls' because it makes them feel elite. I'd say yes, OSX has more unix tools than a windows environment, but not all the tools I'm accustom to in Linux.

In the end, I ended up putting gentoo on the iBook.

BTW - Apple has about zero quality control with their hardware. That iBook broke 6 times with the same issue, until they replaced it with a new one... this one also broke. I recently bought a new x86 laptop to replace the iBook, since I couldn't deal with Apple anymore.

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[Hauser]

My experience with OSX is not very good. Maybe because I don't know much about it yet, but I have to use it (in college) when there's no windows terminal available. It feels sluggish, fonts look wierd (for certain languages); there's also the awkward single-click apple mouse (with no wheel!), confusing file structures, and so on. If I have a choice, I always choose windows over an apple terminal at school.

At home, well, I only use Gentoo. I like linux much better than OSX, period.
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[shredz]

I used gentoo for 3 years or so (never re-installed it joy joy) and have switched to mac in the beginning of 2005. After using the machine exclusively in OS X, looking at a linux desktop just can't match it estethically. Obviously this doesn't improve its speed which compared to linux got a lot better on 10.4 but still can't match x86 gentoo.

Feature-wise, I did get used to expose on os x to such an extent that any desktop not having it feels really primitive. (try programming smalltalk with umpteen windows open at any given time under linux, then on os x)
As soon as kde had expose baked in it using accelerated stuff like the mac does, I think I might go back to linux for sheer customizability and speed though. If only I had a clue how to implement this feature for X composite :/


Another likeable feature is the drag n drop installation of 3rd party programs (e.g. nearly all software), a feature which dependency hellish linux prevents in itself. It's just nice to have all the apps in /Applications as sigular icons to the user (special treated directories by the .app extension). Obviously this is harder to accomplish on linux because of the dependencies, so all-static linked packages or including all necessary libraries with every independent program seem like the only option to ever get this done. (although you could just make drag 'n drop packages that would fetch and install said libraries/dependencies automatically and end up with graphical portage based around applications for lazy/'non-geek' users, thus tagging packages as program or library/system-like but again, this would make a whole other linux).

If this post sounds like mac fanboy material, sue me or implement ekspose

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