msevior ([info]msevior) wrote,
@ 2008-06-26 19:58:00
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Fedora 9 on the desktop
I recently upgraded my desktop at work to an intel duo 3 Ghz, 3 GB RAM, 500 GB disk, Nvidia graphics and lovely 22 inch 1920x1200 resolution display. I promptly installed Fedora 9 with livna rpms. The whole thing works wonderfully well. Compiz-fusion plus gnome is a joy. In all the desktop experience is substantially higher than my previous 6-year-old system.

I haven't used OSX but it's hard to imagine it getting better than this and I frankly don't understand why Free Software hackers want to use it. If you must use MS Office or the usual Windows apps, Wine works great! I have MS Office 2003 for the rare occasions when AbiWord and Gnumeric don't provide sufficient interoperability.

My laptops DVD drive is misbehaving so I did a network upgrade to fedora 9 via preupgrade. This Just Worked. No mucking around with anything so far.

All in all very impressive. Congrats to all the Free Software hackers who have given me this system! Keep up the good work and don't worry about decadence. This is what I and I'm sure most knowledge workers want. A system that just works, keeps out of your way and lets you do your job.

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Macs
(Anonymous)
2008-06-26 10:46 am UTC (link)
Either you used a mac before (about a week is enough) and understand why macs are still order or magnitude better for both devs and regular people or you can keep clueless and ask such questions. It's dead simple - because unlike linux distros that either work okay or don't (depending on your luck with laptop vendors, webcams, modems, graphics chips and sata controllers) and macs just alwasy work because there is a single vendor that happens to shipt the system too. And that makes the quality of the software and hardware combo way higher than any other thing on the market today.

It's just conveniance.

My 0.02 Euro

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Re: Macs
(Anonymous)
2008-06-26 10:50 am UTC (link)
And one more thing - the quality of apple-made apps is also amazing. I'm not saying features but quality. Many foss apss have more features but often those features are poorly designed and interesting to 1% of the user base (and confusing to the remaining 99%). Apple chooses the right set of features for the general population and makes them super easy to use.

Unless I'm a rocket scientist I don't want to hack the engine every time I go on a plane. Event though I might be I shouldn't have to. I think that's the main difference.

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Re: Macs
(Anonymous)
2008-06-26 11:04 am UTC (link)
Apple fanboys are simply pathetic :)

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Re: Macs
(Anonymous)
2008-06-26 11:15 am UTC (link)
Such statements are even more pathetic.
I'm a embedded linux developer and believe me - I'm not a mindless fanboy. Yet I understand the value of what apple makes. I understand the shortcomings too. Every time I see statements such as "what do people see in those macs, my $(distro) works greate" I simply see that clueless person never even interested in what macs are like. Have some knowledge about both platforms and then make your own mind.

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Re: Macs
[info]msevior
2008-06-26 11:32 am UTC (link)
Presumably all you people are free software developers. My point is that you guys *should* support the rest of the community who are doing fantastic work and make what you do possible. The delta is not so great, if it's present at all.

I can see why non-developers use macs and windows.

Anyway my point was to give a big thanks to those people who have provided this fantastic software for everyone.

Edited at 2008-06-26 11:33 am UTC

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You are welcome
[info]sundaram.id.fedoraproject.org
2008-06-26 11:37 am UTC (link)
Keep the feedback coming ;-)

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(Anonymous)
2008-07-12 07:39 am UTC (link)
Free software hackers want to use Macs because they come with awesome free software tools that just aren't available on Linux, and probably won't be any time soon-- especially dtrace, which kicks the pants off SystemTap. Just ask Chris Blizzard why Mozilla do so much of their Firefox performance work on OS X.

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