XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy, alt.os.linux.mandrake, comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   XPost: alt.os.linux.redhat   
   From: mark.kent@demon.co.uk   
      
   ShredZ  espoused:   
   > Snit wrote:   
   >> "Jøhnny Fävòrítê   (it means "halo, then resonate")"    
   >> wrote in post PM0003EFF4A819464A@minion.nashville.comcast.net on 2/12/05   
   >> 6:43 PM:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>Kier wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>Jøhnny Fävòrítê 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.   
   >>>   
   >>>i am speaking from personal experience here, not misinformation.  linux   
   >>>is way, WAY no fun, as far as i'm concerned.   
   >>>   
   >>>i knew somebody would respond like that, and i've already had this   
   >>>conversation eighty billion times, so i am now bowing out.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> is there anyone who knows OS X and Linux well who can make an honest and   
   >> reasoned comparison of the two?   
   >>   
      
   > Been using linux ever since ms announced you wouldn't be able to quit   
   > windows and go to DOS. Linux is in my opinion slowly bursting by it's   
   > own enthousiasm.   
      
   Ah, so you changed over about 10 years ago, when Win95 was said to be   
   without DOS...   
      
   >   
   > I could write a few more pages on the subject but this kind of   
   > represents what I have been experiencing the past year.   
      
      
   Ah, no, it was 12 months ago... (to time with what MS message?)   
      
      
      
   > Note that I went   
   > from linux to BSD about 4 months ago   
      
   Ah, so after *8* months of Linux, you moved onto BSD.  Well, all that   
   stuff about tweaking on update was rubbish, then, as in 8 months,   
   you won't get all that many updates of anything much.   
      
      
   >(switching between linux for   
   > gaming, freebsd for anything work-related and windows for sound   
   > programs)   
      
   Which you've apparently been doing for 4 months - ah, no, hang   
   on, you abandoned Windows either 10 years ago or 1 year ago, but   
   actually you didn't, you say?  Or you've got windows back?   
      
   > and got my mac about 1 month ago now   
      
   Ooops, hang on, you used BSD for 3 months and then got an OSX   
   machine?  Was that before or after the new Windows machine?   
      
   I think my head's going to explode...   
      
   > (iMac G5 cause I didn't   
   > have an LCD display yet).   
      
   LCD?   
      
   If you're going to troll, you should proof-read before you post.   
      
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