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Re: [News] Mac OS X Does Not Look Better Than GNU/Linux

On 2009-06-30, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ____/ JEDIDIAH on Tuesday 30 June 2009 19:18 : \____
>
>> On 2009-06-30, Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> In article <2073880.qzqp1eWA4t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>  Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> They can look the same, but under the hood GNU/Linux is more powerful.
>>>
>>> How so?
>> 
>> ...there is a certain point there. OTOH, if you end up turning a Mac into
>> little more than yet another Linux then what's the point really of bothering
>> with MacOS to begin with?
>> 
>>     Inferior system management?
>>     Inferior driver support?
>>     Inferior support for non-Apple/non-MS data?
>>     Jobs of Borg style datafile management?
>> 
>>     The fact that Photoshop does CYMK well is far more meaningful to those
>> that need that sort of thing than the trivial bits of minutia.
>
> And Photoshop runs on Linux with Wine. How well can Mac OS X run Windows
> programs without a Windows licence? (I know PS has a Mac version)

     Wine runs on MacOS now actually.

     You can buy yourself a boxed copy of Crossover for MacOS at Best Buy.

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