My response:

I've only had to go to the command line twice in 2 years of daily use to get something done. Oh the horror.

I can just double click and install any program. Pointlessly user friendly.

I snapped in my airport card this weekend, checked the airport box on my network panel and wham bam thank you ma'am, it found my netgear router/wireless box and away we went. Setting up the ethernet from my G4 to the router was equally simple once I told the router what my MAC adress was. And here I had set aside the rest of my day to make this work ... I actually had to go and have a social life.

I can run Pshop, Xpress, In Design, Word (not that I do, I actually use Open Office), easily span monitors, import and edit video with iMovie, FCP, Avid, Premere, or Shake. The leading printers and scanners are also supported with the right drivers easily obtainable from the manufacturer's website if I need to update. Oh, the indignity.

The drivers I need to connect my digital camera are preinstalled or easily obtainable from the manufacturer. My photos show up in iPhoto. Damn that convenience!

I can play DVDs without installing any additional software; I can burn them with the easy to use iDVD. Snif! Sob!

I can exercise all of my admin privlidges via a convenient graphical control panel. I've never needed to enable my root account to get anything done. How loathsome!

Now, yes, I realize that by the establised Unix/Linux standards of maximum user frustration, needlessly difficult software/hardware configuration and installation, desktop uselessness, unclear or non-existant help menus, and almost no official support from hardare/software vendors, OS X misses the mark entirely.

But, if that's what being a "successful" and "correctly written" OS means in the *nix world, then I hope OS X continues being such a disaster.

I've used Linux. (and _paid_ for it.) Still do. I've tried extensively to base my desktop computer on it. I just sold my P3 600MHz laptop for a PB 5300 because I couldn't get Linux to do what I want. Now I'm not saying that it can't be done. I know in some cases that it can. What I'm saying is that I reached a point where it takes too much of my time to get Linux to do what I want. My life seems to be exceedingly busy. In trying to free up more time I decided that I needed to make better use of my time. For me, dropping Linux as a desktop OS and Windows on any computer has made my life much better.

The amount of troubleshooting and maintenance on the five desktops in my house has dropped to almost zero since changing to macs. This translates into real time for me to do things instead of fix things.

I've found that Macs in general and Mac OS X in specific, has allowed me to get more work done and waste less time fixing things. If this is a disaster, could I please have some more?

P.S. I have two Mandrake 8.x servers in my house. I want to enable appletalk sharing on them. (The atalk package I believe) Who has a simple and _accurate_ guide on how to do this?

emaq123

http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=3767

I *enjoy* my UberPowerful "ease of use" also

I keep it all in my head (the arguements and junk)

"now you know"

I have enough just with the MLA! (that's how I got so many posts )

"now you know"

I have enough just with the MLA! (that's how I got so many posts )

I use the same name everywhere too

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