I could survive on a Mac since I do a lot of graphic/web design related work, but it'd be tough on Linux since I deal with Adobe file formats a lot (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc). If I were to do the work for myself, I could probably survive using what's available on Linux (like Gimp), but I also have to deal with clients who aren't so computer savvy.
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Most things listed here have great alternatives on both OSs. E.g you can't get trillian but you can get GAIM, and you can't get MS SQL but you can get MySQL and PostgreSQL. Most games won't work though.
Available on Linux
Why wouldn't you be able to do multiple monitors on Linux? I only use two, and have only seen 3. But I don't know of any limitation that would prevent you from using more.
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If these alternatives were that good or met our needs, I'm sure we'd be using them with Windows, seeing as to how they are all available for Windows as well. If switching OS's means using "alternatives" to my preferred apps, it's not worth the switch.
Games for the most part, but who knows with WineX in use. I've got WoW running on my linux box (2 ghz Celeron, 256MB RAM, 32MB GeForce 2) with normal Wine, with WineX on my primary system it might run alright.
Day of Defeat and my Source based games. I'd lose Visual Studio, but it wouldn't be all that useful if I wanted to develop for the mac or linux anyway.
Firefox, WoW, OpenOffice, VLC, and most of my other stuff works on the mac, and much of it runs on linux, too.
Firefox, WoW, OpenOffice, VLC, and most of my other stuff works on the mac, and much of it runs on linux, too.
Games Games Games.
Apart from that ... nothing
Then thats why I have both Linux (quadruple booting Gentoo, Kubuntu, Deb & Austrumix) and windows (dual booting XP & Vista) boxes
Couldnt give a crap who made what, all have their pros and cons, I just like to play with them all
Apart from that ... nothing
Then thats why I have both Linux (quadruple booting Gentoo, Kubuntu, Deb & Austrumix) and windows (dual booting XP & Vista) boxes
Couldnt give a crap who made what, all have their pros and cons, I just like to play with them all
ease of use dvd ripping and xvid conversions. but if i could run xp in a virtual machine on these new x86 macs (hey vmware, make something for the new macs ), I could make due with that. For the most part, I could probably use OSX as a primary. Just can't justify the cost (I get xp free, legally, so no cost on that end) so i'm sticking w/ getting a dual core amd system.. eventually.
), I could make due with that. For the most part, I could probably use OSX as a primary. Just can't justify the cost (I get xp free, legally, so no cost on that end) so i'm sticking w/ getting a dual core amd system.. eventually.Internet on AnandTech.
Doesn't sound so hard but I recently tried using some Mac and Linux systems to simply check out these forums and the main site. These were recent OS versions with firefox or IE and it was a big pain. Crashed regularly. I just gave up until a Windows PC became available.
Doesn't sound so hard but I recently tried using some Mac and Linux systems to simply check out these forums and the main site. These were recent OS versions with firefox or IE and it was a big pain. Crashed regularly. I just gave up until a Windows PC became available.
Lack of apps.. or should I say a decent GUI. The underlaying programmes are there, just using them is a pain in the keester. Unless you want to do a simple DVD (for which there are a few GUIs) you will have to MANUALLY edit an XML descriptor file... eeeeeerrr no thanks - I just wanted to make a nice Menu for grandmas birthday DVD.
For stuff like that my mac comes in handy
Originally posted by: Hyperblaze
umm dude....ftp servers existed in unix/linux a LONG time before they existed in Windows
As for Nero, there is a great variety of burning software in linux if that's what you are thinking of missing out on.
Well.. if I knew of some FTP server software that gave me the features I wanted (ratio accounts, activity logging, banlists, ect.) I'd be willing to switch my server over to Linux. I primarily use it as a file, FTP, and occasional web server and for burning the odd CD or 2. I know Linux can be configred as a web server with Apache and a LAN file server. And I've already got ISOs of Mandrake 10 and Redhat 9. Haven't really played with them much. Any specific distribution you'd choose?
BTW: I'm using Bullet Proof FTP server not the standard FTP component of IIS.
Originally posted by: ryan256
Originally posted by: Hyperblaze
umm dude....ftp servers existed in unix/linux a LONG time before they existed in Windows
As for Nero, there is a great variety of burning software in linux if that's what you are thinking of missing out on.
Well.. if I knew of some FTP server software that gave me the features I wanted (ratio accounts, activity logging, banlists, ect.) I'd be willing to switch my server over to Linux. I primarily use it as a file, FTP, and occasional web server and for burning the odd CD or 2. I know Linux can be configred as a web server with Apache and a LAN file server. And I've already got ISOs of Mandrake 10 and Redhat 9. Haven't really played with them much. Any specific distribution you'd choose?
BTW: I'm using Bullet Proof FTP server not the standard FTP component of IIS.
I'm sure there's at least one warez/mp3 friendly FTP server app for linux, but most that I've seen are geared more towards a commercial FTP site, like IIS is.
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Like has been said, games and the smaller specialty apps. As an example, I have software to program the fuel/timing controller in my truck, software for loading maps into my GPS, etc that I have to use Virtual PC to work with my powerbook.
If you look past the snobbery, most of the other stuff has a mac equivilant.
If you look past the snobbery, most of the other stuff has a mac equivilant.
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Can't think of what self-respecting ftp server would not have comprehensive activity logging.
/etc/hosts.deny: couldn't be simpler
Alright, I don't actually know what that means but I'll risk making a fool of myself
If that means storage quotas, it's more likely to be provided by the operating system I think but it's quite doable. You could probably view it as 'a learning experience.'
If it means bandwidth quotas, this is probably possible using a firewall on the same box. Maybe not as ideal...
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