Will Linux finish off the Mac 3138

Hiding in Plain Sight

So? My point was that Mac users aren't all "artsy" types as the op suggested.

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Well, it doesn't give you X out of the box. That has to be added. And it's somewhat fragile - my X is quite broken right now. And it isn't (at least to me) "most importantly" because it's been broken for months and I don't care. I don't NEED X. The Mac GUI is fine for browsing etc. which is all I use a GUI for - the rest of my life is all command line.

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Exactly. But I think one thing that the new Linux folks sometimes fail to appreciate is that there are a lot of us old Unix folk out here who like Linux because it's Unixy, and not necessarily because of open source. Don't get me wrong: I'm strongly in favor of open source and hope it eventually takes over the world, but that's a political opinion and has nothing to do with my technical desires. On the tech side, all I care about is that it acts like Unix. So Mac is quite attractive to me because it gives me what I want at that level. So does Linux, of course.

Linux isn't likely to kill Mac or vice-versa, in my opinion.

-- Tony Lawrence