Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system
by celer on Monday April 02, 2012 @09:54AM
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For the virtues of locking everything down, I would switch from free v not to mac v windows. These are the two dominant operating systems, dislike it as I think we do. Apple locks down everything. Apple hardware, on the iphone Apple Software, Apple plugins and addons, everything, to the greatest extent possible, is controlled by Apple. This yields benefits. Driver installs giving you problems? Not with Apple. Screen display no working properly? Not with Apple. They control everything, and they make it all perfect. Windows makes a "something for everyone and everything" strategy. It gives you more options, but it also gives you more headaches. I don't think it is possible to increase options endlessly without costs.
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Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system
by thatjoshguy on Monday April 02, 2012 @11:03AM
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OS X is not really that locked down. There is quite a lot you can go through and change and customise and tinker until your heart is content.
Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system
by moystard on Monday April 02, 2012 @12:59PM
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OS X is hardly customizable. The user interface, for example, is pretty hard to customized while on Windows, numerous patches exist to modify completely the user experience (it might be because it is less needed on OSX..). Also, SIMBL allows to patch applications and add features, but it is far from being trivial. I do think Windows is more customizable. Concerning Linux, you can just do what you want with it.