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Luna vs Aqua

I debate all the time with my roommate about OS's and we have come to the following conclusion.

Linux - Windows - OS X are all-different. One is not truly superior to the other; they are all different, created for different purposes for different types of users.

Linux – Free and can run on very cheap hardware, lots of apps out there, great for low level type stuff (routing, firewall), and did I mention free.

Windows – Most popular OS in the world, tons of apps, great for the general business world, fairly cheap, decent for most people. Kind of like the Model-T of computers. And you can easily make a decent living by making these machines talk to each other. Very backward compatible, yes this has caused many problems, but it is still a rather impresses feat.

OS X – expensive but the cost is in quality, great for the digital creative person, almost a blend of Windows and Linux.

Personally I found Windows 2000 to be better than XP. In the IT world I think everyone should stay with Win2000, but the home consumer will benefit from XP.

I am not positive about this but I think the major different with the NT line of OS’s from Microsoft is that there a lot closer to a true 32-bit OS over dos/Win 9x, which were mostly 16-bit with 32-bit hacked on.
 
Windoze XP vs 200 vs NT?

OK, truth, Windows NT is probably the most stable one ever because it doesn't share the 95/98 heritage of bugs.. not that I'm a Windows fan, because I'm totally not, but as far as having been forced to use it, NT was the only Windows that rarely crashed on me. XP? Bloatware! The fisher-price analogy is actually quite fitting. It offers really nothing significantly beneficial over 2000 or 98. Not DOS based, but it still seems like it. Everything just seems like something glommed onto something else.. It all feels like everything has strings.. oh wait, they do.. every function leads you back to some kind of .net or IE marketing scam..
 
Interesting but inaccurate

Originally posted by rastalin94
I debate all the time with my roommate about OS's and we have come to the following conclusion.

Linux - Windows - OS X are all-different. One is not truly superior to the other; they are all different, created for different purposes for different types of users.

Linux Ð Free and can run on very cheap hardware, lots of apps out there, great for low level type stuff (routing, firewall), and did I mention free.
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True enough, but there are less apps for linux than for OS X.

Windows Ð Most popular OS in the world, tons of apps, great for the general business world, fairly cheap, decent for most people. Kind of like the Model-T of computers. And you can easily make a decent living by making these machines talk to each other. Very backward compatible, yes this has caused many problems, but it is still a rather impresses feat.
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WTF? Cheap? Not in this lifetime. $299 just for the home version ($199 to upgrade) and $399 for the Pro version ($299 to upgrade) is NOT what I would even consider calling "fairly cheap" To use your car analogy, it is like a Bentley crossed with a Vega: Expensive as Hell and more likely to break down than work. Also if the OS weren't so damn difficult to use, then no one would have to be overpaid to network them. As to your "backwards compatible, in OS 9 there is exactly one program I can't run from the OS 1.0 days: Microsoft Flight Simulator. I tried that and I got a sad mac.

OS X Ð expensive but the cost is in quality, great for the digital creative person, almost a blend of Windows and Linux.
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I don't consider $129 or less too expensive for an OS, especially when compared to XP. It is more like it is Linux, but a decent flavor of it with a lot of apps.

Personally I found Windows 2000 to be better than XP. In the IT world I think everyone should stay with Win2000, but the home consumer will benefit from XP.
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I'd call it the other way. In IT, companies can buy the latest and greatest hardware that will delay the inevitable slow-down of XP. Home consumers can't do all that upgrading.

I am not positive about this but I think the major different with the NT line of OSÕs from Microsoft is that there a lot closer to a true 32-bit OS over dos/Win 9x, which were mostly 16-bit with 32-bit hacked on.
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Yeah, pretty much, but now XP is 32 with 16 hacked on.
 
less warez for linux than OSX?

dude, are you out of your f*cking gorde?


there are more server warez for linux, more science warez for linux, more math warez, more molecular modelling warez for linux than there are for OSX. maybe if you weren't such a desk jockey using only word processing software, you would realize that in the wide world of OS's, unix warez have been ported to linux since time immemorial.


man, you really do try to sound like a smart *ss. you mac fanatics make me sick because you don't qualify your statements. you want to get into a piss war over this? bring it, home boy!

we can measure up our nerd manhood, chumpo! :)
I have a black belt in: Debating, engineering, unix, linux, political science, molecular biology, biophysics..... yeah that's right, baby, i can even slice, dice, integrate, sum series, take limits, and i'm a certified machinist! i can tell which way to sand when working wood, i know more joints on cabinets than drug addicts, you really wanna fight me? i'll take you in half life, center flag game and kick ur camping *ss through clean. don't get me mad, cuz i'm a lean mean, nerd killing machine! don't let my scrappy stature, my thick glasses and my pocket protector fool you, cuz dude- i can vaporize ur rear with a homemade high yield super duper momma ain't never seen nothing hotter laser!


okay man, don't blow an aneurysm, just don't worship OSX, its just another OS, a young one at that.


peace,

tadpole

ps- SARCASM is an ART.
 
Hi Pants

I didn't mean to make your blood boil. I was merely pointing out the irony that a Mac messageboard is based on a system which has limited features on a Mac.

Having said that, I understand that it would not be possible to implement such features on IE 5.1 for Mac - this is no disrespect to Mac OS X - the problem lies with Microsoft IE. I hope that they update IE for Mac to 6 soon. It is a problem for Apple, however, that they can't compete with Windows as a platform for Web browsing.

This thread seems to be going completely off track. It was originally about differences in the Aqua & Luna GUIs, and has become a pissing contents for Mac v Windows v Linux. That's a really lame debate, in my opinion. Different horses for different courses.
 
Re: less warez for linux than OSX?

Originally posted by tadpole
dude, are you out of your f*cking gorde?


there are more server warez for linux, more science warez for linux, more math warez, more molecular modelling warez for linux than there are for OSX. maybe if you weren't such a desk jockey using only word processing software, you would realize that in the wide world of OS's, unix warez have been ported to linux since time immemorial.


man, you really do try to sound like a smart *ss. you mac fanatics make me sick because you don't qualify your statements. you want to get into a piss war over this? bring it, home boy!

we can measure up our nerd manhood, chumpo! :)
I have a black belt in: Debating, engineering, unix, linux, political science, molecular biology, biophysics..... yeah that's right, baby, i can even slice, dice, integrate, sum series, take limits, and i'm a certified machinist! i can tell which way to sand when working wood, i know more joints on cabinets than drug addicts, you really wanna fight me? i'll take you in half life, center flag game and kick ur camping *ss through clean. don't get me mad, cuz i'm a lean mean, nerd killing machine! don't let my scrappy stature, my thick glasses and my pocket protector fool you, cuz dude- i can vaporize ur rear with a homemade high yield super duper momma ain't never seen nothing hotter laser!


okay man, don't blow an aneurysm, just don't worship OSX, its just another OS, a young one at that.


peace,

tadpole

ps- SARCASM is an ART.
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what a tinyminded idiot loser
 
the thing i find wrong with this discussion is that people ignore the problems evident in their prefered OS and try to highlight the problems with others.
mircrosoft's new os was just a way to keep them from being totally blown away by OS X. their os's have always been nothing more than dos with a "graphic" mask. os x is more than that and does a better job of making your computer appear to be something you would think of as being found in a modern world. XP is just an 82 bonneville with a BMW shell thrown on (cheaply too).
truth be told:
all emotion, intelligence, and "loyalty" aside, i would much rather be using XP than X (actually i'd rather win98 than either). as far as i'm concerned, os x is still in beta. but i'm not an unintelligent, unemotional, or disloyal person. that's why i am using os x now waiting for it to be brought up to par.
 
tadpole is funny.


"we can measure up our nerd manhood, chumpo! :)
I have a black belt in: Debating, engineering, unix, linux, political science, molecular biology, biophysics..... yeah that's right, baby, i can even slice, dice, integrate, sum series, take limits, and i'm a certified machinist! i can tell which way to sand when working wood, i know more joints on cabinets than drug addicts, you really wanna fight me? i'll take you in half life, center flag game and kick ur camping *ss through clean. don't get me mad, cuz i'm a lean mean, nerd killing machine! don't let my scrappy stature, my thick glasses and my pocket protector fool you, cuz dude- i can vaporize ur rear with a homemade high yield super duper momma ain't never seen nothing hotter laser! "


I wish I could back that statement up...cuz if I could, that would be my signature. hehehe
 
to kansai guy

um, before you ever call anyone else a loser again, could it be possible for one minute moment that they were simply rolling in sarcasm and quite possibly have been poking fun at the NERD Stereotype? Or perhaps the subtleties of the english language is beyond you? i mean, its okay man, if its not your native language.

to mywar2000, thanx man, that was the intent of it, to capture the "nerd" thing to make light of our own stereotypes :)
 
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