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To: dinodino
In fact I do run Windows on Virtual Box from my main PC which is running Linux. I haven't had a dedicated Windows PC for years. Yet I do like Windows for some things and Linux for others. There is no reasons to be tied to one OS exclusively.

I have no fear of OSX...I just don't like Apple and will never own one of their products. A personal choice. By the same token, I hate Windows 7 and 8.
For 10 hours everyday I live on the CLI...Unix and Linux. I've been doing it for 20 years. So I guess there is no juice to your assumption that I resist change.

In fact, your assertion sounds very much like the song of The Collective. "You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."

66 posted on 01/15/2012 12:18:07 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The price of freedom is willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, anytime..." - Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I’m not tied to any one OS exclusively, either. I run multiple Linux distros under VMWare Fusion. I choose Mac OSX as my primary OS as it is by far the slickest, most polished OS out there. Now that Office 2011 has an excellent native OSX version, I no longer really have a reason to run Windows, except for some legacy versions of accounting software I still have to use.

I choose the best tool for the job, and even in OSX, I continue to use vim as my primary editor and the shell as my primary interface for development. Yet, I have the other great programs such as iTunes, iPhoto, etc., at my disposal as well, along with whatever other apps you like, and superb stability. Just like with Linux, uptime is measured in months or more.

No collective here—just acknowledgment that Apple produce an excellent hardware and software combination which provides a superb fulfillment of my needs.


78 posted on 01/15/2012 4:18:29 PM PST by dinodino
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