Anton Aylward wrote:
Tony Alfrey said the following on 08/20/2010 12:58 AM:
[...] There is none of this angst between Mac OS 10.4 and Mac OS 10.6, for example.
Well, for a start, Angst is a application for OSX... http://angst.darwinports.com/
But you're forgetting the "angst" that happened when Apple ...
... discontinued its traditional OS and "unix-ified" by adopting OSX to replace OS9:
Apple is not perfect. I have run every Apple operating system since my first Apple II Plus in 1979, and have had, or someone in my family has had, nearly every Mac box, including the toxic trash that Apple produced in the Scully years. I had almost given up on Apple and was running nothing but a dual-boot Linux/Windoze box, when they released OS X. It was an amazing revelation to walk into the Apple store, fire up a Terminal on an 11" PowerBook and run Unix commands. I said "this is what linux /could/ look like". That said, what Apple does right, at least recently, is to support the transition from one OS and processor to the next relatively well, and especially since the release of OS X. There is usually good support for both the "old" and "new" for a long time after the change happens. I have not used KDE 4.x yet so I do not speak from experience, only from what I hear on the lists. But what I hear is that many things in KDE 4.x were seriously broken when released, and complaints were greeted with "get used to it". I could go into even more detail about recent Apple support on a specific box but it would violate an NDA ;-) But I'll just say that I would not expect to get such support from any linux distro. And yes, a Mac is twice the price of a PC with linux installed. And it's more than worth the time saved /for me/. Sorry if we've drifted /way/ off topic (not much KDE in this), but the Apple comparison popped up. -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org