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Chris Corbyn
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panic! wrote:and underneath the GUI is the command line which is about 100 x more powerful than the DOS prompt...
Agreed. OSX runs on top of Darwin. Darwin of course is a UNIX system so that says it all. Editting kext files is really obvious since they're all XML based. I use Linux now because I love how easily I can find my way around and manipulate the system compared with windows. I'll move to a Mac OS just as soon as I get the funds together to buy one. The fact that the new Macs now run on intel CPUs is a big plus since running Linux on them will be much easier than the PPC stuff (which was still well supported).
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Yeah I have a dual boot with Ubuntu at work AND at home and our testing server is an ubuntu box.....

BASH is insanely powerful. I love apt as well.

apt-get install *package* -y

and people say Linux is 'hard' ;)
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Post by matthijs »

panic, so BASH and apt are Linux distro's? Never heard of those before. (everytime i decide to install linux somewere I read about another great version and can't decide which one to choose)

I have been working on my new macbook for a couple of weeks now and can share some observations:
- the interface is beautifull! Text looks good, windows, messages.

- most things are very intuitive and logical. Changing configuration stuff and options seems easier and more logical then in xp. Like when you want to change a display or mouse setting or so. Somehow in windows it always takes 8 clicks, while in OSx it's 3.

- some things are difficult getting used to when switching. Those small things which are ingrained after years of windows usage.

- I have decided from now on I want as much of my data in open formats as possible. Luckily I had all my mail in thunderbird, so I could easily migrate my mail. But it's really stupid to have all my text documents in .doc format. Even though I can buy Office for the mac I won't do that. OpenOffice it will be. I want to own my data and not depend on some corporation's software.

- I wish I had bough a mac years ago.

- Linux is the next on the list to try.
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