Stylistic people go for a mac, true geeks go for Linux (or variant)
I've seen a nontrivial proportion of hardcore geek types move towards Apple since the advent of OS X, since it's basically UNIX with a decent, well-designed GUI: just like NeXT was ten years ago, but less prohibitively expensive, and it runs on cute hardware you can carry around with you. The freely available developer tools and documentation are also really quite temptingly good.
Most of the opposition I've seen to this trend has been from the people who run linux because it's Free-as-in-capital-F, which is a political position, on an axis orthogonal to geekiness.
Yes, I think that I'd have to agree with this. I haven't the cash to buy a mac (looming house buying, weddings and children), but use Linux regardless because I prefer the unix way of doing things then the "One Windows Way", but that's my choice. Other people are different, most of the civilised world if windows usage figures are true.. :D
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Date: 2005-09-23 11:21 pm (UTC)I've seen a nontrivial proportion of hardcore geek types move towards Apple since the advent of OS X, since it's basically UNIX with a decent, well-designed GUI: just like NeXT was ten years ago, but less prohibitively expensive, and it runs on cute hardware you can carry around with you. The freely available developer tools and documentation are also really quite temptingly good.
Most of the opposition I've seen to this trend has been from the people who run linux because it's Free-as-in-capital-F, which is a political position, on an axis orthogonal to geekiness.
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Date: 2005-09-24 08:28 am (UTC)