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   From: timberwoof@stimpberawoofm.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Andre Majorel  wrote:   
      
   > On 2005-02-13, Liam Slider  wrote:   
   >   
   > > I'm guessing, just guessing from *all* the reports, that Linux is just   
   > > a lot less polished on PPC hardware than it is on x86 hardware. I guess   
   > > it'll have to catch up if we want to snag Mac users.   
   >   
   > Mac OS is not like Windows. A large proportion of the Windows   
   > user base runs Windows not because they like it but because   
   > that's what everybody else runs. Mac OS users, on the contrary,   
   > _like_ Mac OS. Those who don't switched to Windows years ago. I   
   > think that attracting the average Mac OS user is going to be a   
   > lot harder than attracting the average Windows user.   
   >   
   > Unix and Mac OS were designed for different people and made   
   > different trade-offs. A Linux distro tailored to "snag" Mac   
   > users could be a nightmare for Unix people.   
      
   I'm not so sure. Lots of Unix people are moving to OS X because it lets them   
   run   
   the Microsoft Orifice application that "everybody" uses *and* be unix   
   workstations.   
      
   I think that a Linux distro designed to snag Macc users would be a nightmare   
   for   
   developers to build -- They'd really have to understand UI design, rather than   
   just copying what Windows does (which is a copy of what the Mac does).   
      
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