[Kewlhand`tek]

my other problem with mac's is you have to *cough**buy**cough* software :) which is one reason i use linux they usually have free software that works as nicely as the paid for stuff. And occasionally i may procure some windows software. Take photoshop for instance........600 bucks just to mess around with it? I am never going to be a graphix artist and if i did happen to make a living at i would then fork over the money. I use gimp now anyway. But now that mac0s is bsd based there may be more free apps made for it

[NCjim]

I agree with you that Linux is the best game in town.

On the topic of Windows complexity and bugginess, I have often heard allegations that were Microsoft to clean up its act, then the market for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers (MCSEs) would dry up. That is a lucrative market and great incentive to keep Windows the way it is. Now if I were a conspiracy theorist...

[BlazingArizona]

my other problem with mac's is you have to *cough**buy**cough* software :) which is one reason i use linux they usually have free software that works as nicely as the paid for stuff.

What you mean is that if you want software for the OS X graphic interface, you have to buy it. But why go to a Linux box to run free stuff, when you can run the same plethora of Unixware on the beautifully-integrated, full featured, works-with-all-the-devices Unix that runs under OS X? If you don't like paying $600 for Photoshop, why run the Unix eqivalent, Gimp,on a crappy Linux box when you can get Gimp for Mac's flavor of Unix and view it as it was meant to be seen?