Mac vs. Linux was New to Linux. I'm not impressed : 4148

Tony Lawrence

I was talking about hardware vendors. When things don't work for the mac you are just f***ed. What turned me off from Mac OSX, besides seing it run like a dog on my friends computer and putting things in weird places that I didn't like, I was given the task (at work) to attempt getting a particular wireless device working with the Mac. Well, that vendor had no mac drivers. Supposedly you could download drivers for a different brand unit that supposedly had the same innards and edit some files in it to make the unit work; I spent a few hours on it and gave up.

That is what makes me say it has the worst of both worlds...a lack of vendor support and a lack of source. In linux if a driver for one brand's hardware unit would work with another it usually just does without any intervention; those that don't can be edited and you usually get support for that from the writer of the driver, etc... But with Mac you have proprietery drivers that you have to try and trick into working and no hardware vendor is going to help you hack their driver to work with the compebreastion's stuff. Too much pain and effort if you ask me.

I was tempted by the fact that there are DAW programs that work on Mac that are supposedly really good. But what exists for Linux is really f***ing good too...so I'll just stick to the OS OS.