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Re:Wal-Mart Offers Linux as Windows Alternative (2003) by chme on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @02:00PM (#15229651)
I would be ok with MacOS if Apple wouldn't try so hard to sell me everything else from them. If they instead would push more to open standards and iteroperability, but they are busy building a prison for their customers where they can push them all their products down their throat.

Microsoft is doing the same, but in my opinion not that extreme, because they aren't as successful with it as Apple is.

Google and all the other big corps are doing it too to some degree and thats why I try to stay away from them as far as I can.

Re:Wal-Mart Offers Linux as Windows Alternative (2003) by overcast on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @04:18PM (#15232034)
That "prison" you speak of, is exactly why people buy into the Apple ecosystem.
Re:Wal-Mart Offers Linux as Windows Alternative (2003) by schrodinger on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @02:48PM (#15230339)
Prison?
Re:Wal-Mart Offers Linux as Windows Alternative (2003) by KGIII on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @11:23PM (#15235259)
More like a Swedish prison, less like Holman Correctional.
Re:Wal-Mart Offers Linux as Windows Alternative (2003) by dramm on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @09:00PM (#15234591)
Well a comfortably padded cell. :-)

To me a MacBook Pro with productivity apps and Ubuntu VMs in Fusion for software development is a pretty nice environment.