Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Just curious, Brian, but why did you switch to Mac after 5 years of PC > (Unix?) use ? I'm unwilling to become more of a Microsoft vassal, which XP would require. Microsoft is forcing the issue by evolving away from the relatively harmless Windows 95/98/Me. Everything that really matters to me is on back-end server computers which run open-source Unix (FreeBSD), so it's really an issue of what I use for my desktop. I chose Mac over Linux because the application programs that I use the most (email, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, iTunes, Netscape) work better on Mac than on Linux. I also like the Java development environment on the Mac better. And, I must confess, I got a really nice discount on the gorgeous Apple Studio Display, which doesn't work at all with Linux. I've now gone 2 weeks using my Mac for everything (including connecting to my servers), so it seems to be working. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html