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> I heard tho "Get a Mac" mantra so often that I started believing it > would actually not be as hateful as the rest of software. It's software. What did you fucking expect? But if you want Unicode to Just Work, it's your best option by far. > A little less > than a year later, I know much better and have installed Linux on it > (Kubuntu breezy), because dpkg is better at handling system packages > than the .app crap that lacks centralized upgrades, Darwinports or Fink. As for KDE... personally, I prefer Windowmaker, and I detest both KDE and Gnome, but I'll readily admit that there are things I miss about traditional UNIX windowing environments. But having shit Just Work instead of having to go through an Amish Barn Raising every time I install a new application (and if you try and tell me ANY package manager on Linux is going to change that I'll laugh) is worth having to *run an application to burn CDs*. When I go crook at GUI stuff on my Mac and post about it to this list, it's almost always stuff that I'd never loose my cool over on any X11-based environment... not because X11 does it better but because X11 puts so much Amish Barn Raising shit in my way I'd never have tried... or it's stuff even I'll admit is a bit geeky. Where Mac OS X pisses me off is low level shit like the lack of tape support and the fact that UFS isn't the default file system. And Linux sure as hell isn't going to scratch my UFS itch with its filesystem-of-the-week and none-of-them-support-dump dance. OK, raw disk is a crappy and hateful API for backups, but it's a hell of a lot better than not HAVING one.There's stuff above here
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