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15 Jan 2010, 11:18 pm

Simply put: Mac OS X is the operating system that Apple uses. OS X is the successor to "classic" Mac OS. It's a very powerful and easy to use operating system.

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15 Jan 2010, 11:31 pm

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I just use Linux and only Linux. I stopped using Windows completely two days ago.

You will go back to Windows in a few days when you realize that Ubuntu (or whatever Linux distro you are using) has only free "open-source" programs and it's easy to screw it up with no way of recovery. Not to mention it still lacks support for a lot of hardware and software.

You could use WINE... But there is no substitute for Windows. I love that name. Windows. I love saying "Windows". It makes me think of windows. I can look out of my windows and see what is outside. With Ubuntu, you're in a garage constantly having to tinker with things.

I love Windows. It's so beautiful. It's like the soul of a woman (computer). She can show you a good time, holds your memories, and she looks good, but you have to protect her. That's the beauty of Windows. You can't just go everywhere and not expect your data to get crushed by a virus. Haha!

Plus, the malfunctions of Windows make a lot of people a lot of money. I must be the only one who never has a problem with Windows 7 Ultimate.

Bill Gates is a genius.

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15 Jan 2010, 11:34 pm

Celtic_Frost wrote:

RaceDrv709 wrote:

I just use Linux and only Linux. I stopped using Windows completely two days ago.

Okay, now I know you're trolling.

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15 Jan 2010, 11:35 pm

Celtic_Frost wrote:

it's easy to screw it up with no way of recovery.

Only if you have an inferior IQ and don't actually know how to use a computer.

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16 Jan 2010, 3:58 pm

I love the MacOS, and OSx, and I love linux also.

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16 Jan 2010, 6:25 pm

My sister and my friend owns a mac..... They are very good and very stable, I would definitely buy one but the thing I don't seem to like about the MacOS X is that fact that they are very expensive but yet very good quality laptop....
Yet with Mac's, it is really mainly aimed for people who does photography, art, movies etc and not for gaming... if you did want to use gaming, the best laptops to use is windows

Me I'm running a 4gb ram and 250GB hard drive, that must be very good i guess and that is excellent for gaming and going on the internet at the exact same time

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16 Jan 2010, 6:58 pm

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Why should we continuously bash each other like kids. OSX is a very good OS that is compatible of many things. Most people who ACTUALLY do things with their computer besides gaming agrees.

I must say compatible isn't a word I usually associate with OSX or anything from Appl€.

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16 Jan 2010, 7:28 pm

Celtic_Frost wrote:

You are wrong. Out of all of the operating systems Linux is the most out-of-box. Also in Unix and Unix-like operating systems (Linux, FreeBSD etc.) "everything is a file" which make customisation and system restoration a lot easier than Windows. Plus in Linux all the configuration files are easily editable formats and none are in proprietary formats. So in actual fact recovering a from a failure or crash (not that it happens when you know s**t) is so much easier on Linux.

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16 Jan 2010, 7:40 pm

CloudWalker wrote:

I must say compatible isn't a word I usually associate with OSX or anything from Appl€.

It's a fully POSIX-compliant UNIX system. Unlike Windows, OS X adheres to open standards.

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Out of all of the operating systems Linux is the most out-of-box.

Depends very strongly on which distro you're using. If you're talking Ubuntu/Mint or similar then maybe, depending on what hardware you're using. But something like Gentoo, Arch or Slackware? Or Debian and Fedora on hardware that doesn't have open-source drivers?

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16 Jan 2010, 7:51 pm

Orwell wrote:

lxuser wrote:

Out of all of the operating systems Linux is the most out-of-box.

True, but most of the time common hardware works with out a second thought.

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16 Jan 2010, 7:55 pm

Unless you want to stick with the command line, POSIX won't get you far.

And you are wrong in saying that Windows can't be POSIX compliant. M$ has provided an optional POSIX subsystem since the very first version of NT.

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16 Jan 2010, 11:51 pm

CloudWalker wrote:

Unless you want to stick with the command line, POSIX won't get you far.

It also has X windows in the default install. Right now I'm running a source-compiled chess program that's only actually developed for Linux (gtk-based). And POSIX compliance is quite important.

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And you are wrong in saying that Windows can't be POSIX compliant. M$ has provided an optional POSIX subsystem since the very first version of NT.

It's only partially POSIX-compliant, and frankly it's more of a cheap emulation layer than a true POSIX subsystem. It's like WINE- sure, it lets you run some of the stuff, but you'd be out of your mind to claim it's a real replacement.

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17 Jan 2010, 9:53 am

CloudWalker wrote:

gamefreak wrote:

Why should we continuously bash each other like kids. OSX is a very good OS that is compatible of many things. Most people who ACTUALLY do things with their computer besides gaming agrees.

I must say compatible isn't a word I usually associate with OSX or anything from Appl€.

Really? It seems to me that anything you can do with Windows, you can do just as easily on a Macintosh. The bottom line is, every user has different needs, and each user should choose the OS that they want to use, not the one that someone else says is "better". There is no "best" OS.

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17 Jan 2010, 11:25 pm

Windows 7 is incredible. Vista was alright, but hogged my memory. I don't like Mac OS X period and find that using Ubuntu is just as good as using mac OS X.

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18 Jan 2010, 12:09 am

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Windows 7 is incredible. Vista was alright, but hogged my memory. I don't like Mac OS X period and find that using Ubuntu is just as good as using mac OS X.

I thought you "completely stopped using Windows two days ago"? We are glad you are back on the Microsoft band wagon, again.

Yes, Windows 7 is incredible. There is no better OS for gaming, art, movies, whatever you are going to do. No OS is better at doing everyday things than Windows. Linux is for industrial purposes (servers, programmers, etc.), and Macs are for the "creative, I got a Mac, Mac is so much better" idiots.

So whoever says Winblows, Windows sucks, or something like that, I bet they are secretly looking at a great PC game and saying "Wow, I wish I could play that, if only I had a Windows PC".

Windows gaming = All of PC Gaming, period.
Linux gaming = Game console emulators and open-source, free game projects that never get finished.
Mac gaming = Whatever you could play in your browser and the few games that gets ported to OS X.

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18 Jan 2010, 3:46 am

I saw a buttload of windows downloads
on bittorrent.

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