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   From: NoWay@NoWhere.com   
      
   Kier wrote:   
      
   >> if you can stand linux, it would make an okay choice.  personally i   
   >> couldn't.  way too fiddly and difficult.  every little thing required   
   >> editing a config file somewhere with tortured, impossible syntax.  and   
   >> all the dependency issues.  bleargh, not for me.   
   >   
   > You must have been misinformed by someone. It's by no means that hard.   
   > I've very rarely had to edit a config file, and even when I have, it was   
   > pretty straightforward. I'm by no means an expert in such matters.   
      
   It's pretty common for anyone outside of SuSE users to   
   edit /etc/X11/XF86Config for their video. However, nVidia publishes a   
   README on it, and it's very good and straightforward, including all   
   possible nVidia specific options to enable.   
      
   Config and rc files are almost plain english. They're far easier to edit   
   than the Windows Registry.   
      
   >> so that leaves macosx.  it's easy to set up and administrate.  and yes,   
   >> it is very stable.  i've been using it since 2001, and i've had only two   
   >> hard crashes in all that time, both years ago.  every once in a great   
   >> while the finder will get confuzzled, but macosx restarts it, and   
   >> everything is fine again.  definitely a good choice for those who cannot   
   >> in good conscience use microsoft products, which should be everybody, if   
   >> you ask me.   
   >   
   > Yup. But why be confined to Macs, when there's Linux, and FreeBSD, ready   
   > to go.   
      
   On his current machine, even... Macs are great, but they just cost too much   
   and Apple has forced many owners to upgrade hardware (complete machine) in   
   order to run the latest/greatest OS. I had a 604e based PowerPC and when   
   they went to USB and Firewire, they wrote out that ADB bus and instantly   
   made my machine a dinosaur. They make little to no effort to keep legacy   
   machines going on the latest software. It sucked that I had a machine just   
   a couple of years old, but still plenty of power, and I couldn't run Mac OS   
   9. It's just too expensive to keep up with that crap.   
      
   It's too bad, too. I'd probably still be a Mac user if they hadn't done   
   that. I stuck to the Mac in some of the darkest days, when everyone was   
   predicting doom for Apple. But, they turned their back on me.   
      
      
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