TNT Is Not TeX - Hackdot

Re:TNT Is Not TeX by dextorious on Friday December 09, 2011 @08:32AM (#3333604)

What do you mean? OS X is a POSIX-certified UNIX, with a damn fine UI, and tons of both proprietary and OSS for it.

I can understand people liking Linux/Solaris etc more, but are there people that really believe Windows is better?

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Re:TNT Is Not TeX by darklajid on Sunday December 11, 2011 @08:33AM (#3340016)

Yes.

It confuses the hell out of me that I'm defending Windows here - I'm an OSS enthusiast and run Linux whenever I can.

Thing is: Operating systems are at this point just a more complex choice of preference and taste. Pick anything recent (I'm not going to stand for Win 95/98/ME/XP), use common sense and best practices for the platform and you're golden.

No, OS X is not by default a better system. It might attract you as a BSD with a UI that you consider damn fine. Other people are free to disagree and like their choice of platform better, be it Windows, Linux, *BSD or whatnot.

I repeat: There's _zero_ ground for calling OS X generally superior (nor inferior!) in a war of operating systems, neither technically nor in any other way.

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