OSX Yosemite and the 8-year-old Bash
Over a decade ago, I traded my bag-of-hurt dualboot setup with Windows XP and Linux for something 'better'. I got a nice 12" milk-white iBook G4 with Mac OSX 10.3. It offered me considerably lower performance than my old laptop, but that would be offset by the giant leap in productivity I expected to see from not having to deal with my previous annoyances. Annoyances like all kinds of things in Linux that didn't work properly (Linux on the desktop was pretty crappy back in 2003), or just using Windows in general.
In short, Linux was broken all the time, and Windows didn't offer me the tools and the workflow that I wanted. OSX fixed both. It 'just worked', and gave me all the tools I wanted… and twice the battery life. I just wanted a proper *NIX desktop. All the CLI tools that I need, a nice GUI, and Microsoft Office because I had to.
Read full article from OSX Yosemite and the 8-year-old Bash
No comments:
Post a Comment