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[News] More on Mac-to-Linux Defections

Why I ditched my Mac for Linux

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| Based on the title of this treatise of mine you are, likely, safe in
| your assumption that I am about to tell you all, using the bestest words
| my mind can muster, why I stopped using MacOS X and switched over to
| Linux.
|
| [...]
|
| 1)  The Mac Community
| 
| It has been my experience that the Mac "community" (ie, the most vocal
| and active of the Macintosh enthusiast and power users) tend to be
| incredibly negative and expect much more than they deserve.
| 
|
| [...]
|
| 2) Apple and their practices
| 
| This is a simple one.  Apple has a long track record of directly copying
| 3rd party application developers (most notably small shops) and
| including almost perfect clones of those, usually shareware, apps in
| their next version of OS X.  Watson & Konfabulator are the two most
| high profile recent examples.
| 
| [...]
|
| 3) Apple's software quality
| 
| I'm sure I'll get plenty of flack for this one (then again, I'm sure I'll
| get plenty of flack for all of this), but Apple's software quality has
| gone into the toilet.
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http://www.bryanobryan.com/?p=28

Steve Woziak agreed with point 3 by the way. As for point 2, I can recall Om
Malik comparing Apple to Microsoft in that context.

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