Convince me, please!

[Chad Perrin]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 12:30:32PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 06:54:37PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > 
> > >For the best user experience, and Unix too: MacOS X.
> > 
> > a very little unix (few tools and kernel) + lots of bulky overhead ...
> 
> Try it, you will find otherwise. The user interface works without
> hassle. MacOS X comes with more standard utilities than does FreeBSD,
> for instance procmail, fetchmail, sqlite3, Apache, php 4.4.7, ...

I don't really think of entirely unnecessary (for most purposes) server
software as "standard utilities".  Speaking only for myself, I *have*
tried MacOS X (and used it in a professional capacity), and I too find it
to be "very little unix" with "lots of bulky overhead".  I also find it
actively user-hostile in some of its aesthetic design choices (when your
aesthetic sense demands that you make input devices less usable, there's
a problem).

MacOS X has some definite benefits, but it's not the be-all and end-all
of OS design by any stretch.  Its biggest benefit is that it's not MS
Windows (speaking of user hostility).

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