Pegritz on: Computers.

[oneirophrenia]

Who the fuck cares that Apple it switching to Intel chips? Apple is the world's most annoying company. Their products are extremely good--I love OS X to pieces, and their hardware is oftimes really impressive--but disgustingly overpriced and the company itself is chaired by a complete fucking asshole whose ego makes Bill Gates' seem no bigger than St. Francis of Asissi's. Whatever Apple wants to do with Intel doesn't mean shit to me, and shouldn't mean shit to anyone, because Macs will still be overpriced and I'll never own one.

Linux! Linux is a great little software package that makes for a great, secure server solution. But, hey, Slashdot geeks? Linux will never compete with Microsoft or Apple in terms of desktop solutions. Linux is too fucking complicated for most everyday users, period. And there just isn't enough productivity software for it. C'mon, people...OpenOffice can't hold a candle to MS Office for Windows or the Mac. And audio software? Try to find me even a half-decent .wav editor and I'll be amazed. I'm planning on building a Linux file server for my house this summer, but to use it for anything else is...well, pointless.

Windows "Longhorn" is basically just going to be a cheap, PC-based knockoff of OS X. WindowsXP with a few extra bells and whistles stolen from Tiger. The end. Am I excited about it? No. I was excited about XP because, well, XP was such a gigantic improvement on allllllllllll previous versions of Windows--but Longhorn is just going to be XP with some databasing features and a couple of GUI tweaks. Whoop-a-dee-doo.

You know what the greatest OS of all time was? DOS. Period.

And the greatest computer system? The TRS-80.

Discuss.

Comments

[imightbegaye.livejournal.com]

I don't see why you would not want to use it, except if you have some specific software that you want to run that can't run in Linux.

Which consists of pretty much everything I use a computer for that doesn't relate to programming or content-serving. It's pretty much completely devoid of usable/useful creative tools, and of course your entertainment options are limited. I'm a huge freeBSD fan, but there's very little reason that I can see for running a *nix variant at home, unless you do a lot of programming or content serving.

[imightbegaye.livejournal.com]

If the "surf the web/do e-mail/word processing" group is a majority, why did Web TV fare so badly? Wouldn't you just buy some sort of net appliance rather than a computer?