Working with all three platforms ... 3418

Hi Leythos,

I agree with your statements to a point ... Mac's don't have the application support that Windows has (as I noted in my original post), but for someone who works for a company or group who uses Macs, OSX has a great development platform using XCode. The full version is available for free, and being Obj-C has evolved without too much change over the years, it's a great platform to program with. However it's programming for Macs, so back again to my point -- you use the platform that suits you. I know Microsoft has recently released some components of Visual Studio for free, but to get the full development package to do Visual Basic, C#, VC, etc, it's quite costly. I'm no expert programming in Obj-C or Microsoft's languages, but I've used both enough to know I personally do prefer Mac's programming environment better. But as always, to each his own on this.

As for games, this is no different then some games being available on the PS2 while others for XBox... Folks who choose Mac or Linux over Windows go into it knowing they can't run some games. Again, choose the system that suits your needs - if someone is a gamer and wants to run a wide variety of games, Windows is the choice. I don't do games, so for me this isn't a factor.

Linux has its advantages, and though I love the Penguin I still don't think Linux is for everyone. I do think Linux is perfect for the server, much more then Windows in most cases (web, DB, proxy-firewall, etc), but on the desktop I'm still not sure. I love it, and I used it for MANY years, but it's not as intuitive as OSX or Windows for most tasks.

Windows is a good OS when it wants to be. I run Windows at work and OSX at home and on my laptop, and much more often I'm in Windows wishing I had some feature OSX has then vice versa. But again, to each his own. If you've never tasted the grbutt on the other side of the fence, you don't know what you're missing ... for folks who've never used OSX for any length of time, they'd not know the little perks OSX has.

But as I keep stating, each user needs to evaluate their needs and choose the platform that suits them.

Thanks for the post..

Sam