Why is OSX >> Win7 ?

[ControlD]

Also:

I looked into it and it turns out that Mac OSX is a fork of Linux; I talked to a comp-sci professor, he told me.

I guess Steve Jobs put some of his amazing creativity into Linux and that's why OS-X is for creative people but Linux is still for people who can't figure out how to get their wives to sleep with them.

I don't believe that is true however. OS X is a BSD based operating system, not a fork of Linux. I'll make sure to let my wife know.

 

[BrightCandle]

I don't believe that is true however. OS X is a BSD based operating system, not a fork of Linux. I'll make sure to let my wife know.

You are more correct. Its based on a Micro kernel (Linux is a monolithic posix kernel) which is similar to BSD. Its actually for this reason why OS X performs much worse in IO operations than Windows and Linux in software like MySQL. It has to swap the buffers more in order to write out the same data. In theory its more secure, in practice its made no apparent difference in security.

I don't really care about the whole OS thing, we are almost past it as an industry and it makes so little actual practical difference in productivity that its an irrelevant topic.

I will say this - for being a blatantly obvious troll he got fed pretty well.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

I will say this - for being a blatantly obvious troll he got fed pretty well.

I'm just sad it as moved to OSes

 

[Nothinman]

My right click still doesn't work, hyper-card is nowhere in sight and I can't keep my autistic brother off the stupid thing because he just hits squiggle-loopy-X and S on the boot up and then types:

mount -uw /
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
shutdown -h now

Also:

I looked into it and it turns out that Mac OSX is a fork of Linux; I talked to a comp-sci professor, he told me.

I guess Steve Jobs put some of his amazing creativity into Linux and that's why OS-X is for creative people but Linux is still for people who can't figure out how to get their wives to sleep with them.

OS X isn't Linux, the GPL forbids a lot of what they've done with it. The core system is the GNU Mach kernel and FreeBSD userland. And I'm a Linux user and have no issues sleeping with my gf, so I wonder where I fall in your world view.

 

[alent1234]

i bought a MBP with lion late last year and used some of the older OS X's over the years a bit.

like lion better than windows. apple is genius for putting gestures in there
the previous versions were crap compared to windows. always took more clicks to do something compared to windows

 

[beginner99]

I don't care how slick OSX is. Until Apple releases that death grip it has development it will never displace Windows in any meaningful way, because while Windows is a more cumbersome and occasionally more stubborn environment to work in, it offers its users one feature that OSX can't possible compete with at this point: software selection.

I have numerous friends who have Apple machines and use OSX regularly, but almost all of them also run Windows 7 through boot camp in order to use software they otherwise wouldn't have access to.

The fact is that unless OSX can become more than an Apple vanity exercise, it will never compete with Windows in any meaningful way. OSX does have some pretty good multimedia editing software available as well as office productivity suites (ironically Microsoft), but once you get past that all you really have is the fluff they sell in the Appstore.

So true.

 

[jhansman]

Maybe you are not creative? Macs are for creative people

Make that cultists, and you are spot on. I am as creative (photography, writing, and more) as anyone I know and I wouldn't own an Apple product if it was the only one available. Just another myth propagated by the Kool-Aid crowd.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Make that cultists, and you are spot on. I am as creative (photography, writing, and more) as anyone I know and I wouldn't own an Apple product if it was the only one available. Just another myth propagated by the Kool-Aid crowd.

Am I the only one that doesn't like all this nay-saying of Kool-Aid?

don't believe that is true however. OS X is a BSD based operating system, not a fork of Linux. I'll make sure to let my wife know.

OS X isn't Linux, the GPL forbids a lot of what they've done with it.

I'm sorry but without a Ph.D. in computer SCIENCE I don't think you can know enough to speak on this issue.

I'm a Linux user and have no issues sleeping with my gf. where I fall in your world view.

Empty stares, from each corner of a shared prison cell.

 

[Nothinman]

I'm sorry but without a Ph.D. in computer SCIENCE I don't think you can know enough to speak on this issue.

Copyright law isn't science.

Empty stares, from each corner of a shared prison cell.

On occasion, but most nights the stares are quite affectionate.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Strong dislike for OSX here. Your thread title is backwards

 

[Binky]

I tried very hard to find something nice to say but I got nuthin. Maybe this thread would be more useful if the title was in all caps, or alternating caps/lowercase.

 

[ControlD]

SCIENCE[/b] I don't think you can know enough to speak on this issue.


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Riiiight. I didn't realize it takes a Ph.D. in computer SCIENCE to do a few minutes of research on the origins of OS X. Please forgive me.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Riiiight. I didn't realize it takes a Ph.D. in computer SCIENCE to do a few minutes of research on the origins of OS X. Please forgive me.

Forgiveness for ignorance should alwase be granted freely upon request.

I pardon you.

 

[cheez]

Another thing I don't like about Windows 7 is that when you browse a folder in the network by typing in \\cheez_is_cool\c$ in run box and if that path is either invalid or the destination doesn't exist it takes about 3- 5 minutes to tell you that the destination does not exist. In contrast, with world-champ world-class Windows Server 2003, it takes a few seconds!! It's that fast. WinXP is almost as fast. I bet Windows 2000 Pro is even faster.

It really really really affects my work productivity at work. Unacceptable. This is why I keep a WinXP laptop sitting next to it so I can use it for that.

I haven't yet run into speed problems with Mac OS X Lion when searching files. It seems to be awefully fast.

Windows 2000
Windows NT 4.0
Windows XP
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2008
Mac OS X

They are all flyin fast.