Re:Torvalds: Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my but...
by SoftwareMaven on Sunday March 27, 2011 @01:21AM
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"I do find it ironic that you cite things breaking as a reason to move to Apple."
To be clear, things breaking wasn't what I was referring to. Generally, things worked very well on Linux (except [at the time] suspending and wifi on my laptop) and I know they've gotten better.
On the other hand, there was far too much focus on software for the developer's sake and not software for the user's sake for my tastes (even as a developer). I'm fine with the people who are developing the (almost exclusively) open source software developing it for themselves, but it was too much headache for me, so I did the proverbial "voted with my wallet".
I still use Linux a lot, it is the platform my startup is deploying on, and it amazes me every time I ponder the changes to the entire community since kernel version 0.9'ish and slackware when I first started using Linux. I actually trust the Linux community far more than Apple to keep things working over a longer-term timeline (which is great for servers, but I don't care much about on my desktop).
To be clear, things breaking wasn't what I was referring to. Generally, things worked very well on Linux (except [at the time] suspending and wifi on my laptop) and I know they've gotten better.
On the other hand, there was far too much focus on software for the developer's sake and not software for the user's sake for my tastes (even as a developer). I'm fine with the people who are developing the (almost exclusively) open source software developing it for themselves, but it was too much headache for me, so I did the proverbial "voted with my wallet".
I still use Linux a lot, it is the platform my startup is deploying on, and it amazes me every time I ponder the changes to the entire community since kernel version 0.9'ish and slackware when I first started using Linux. I actually trust the Linux community far more than Apple to keep things working over a longer-term timeline (which is great for servers, but I don't care much about on my desktop).