Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]brian, you know more about computers than i ever will, and it shows! congrats on the mac and the noctilux! - -rei p.s. not to recusitate a dead argument, but i like the fact that your mac line-breaks your emails nicely whereas your windoze box wrap's em round and round and round. > From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > > > 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