Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCT: June 8-12, 2009
Marken:
Well... yeah, if you go into specifics.
I just wanted to pop the illusions of grandeur, and to explain that they are not from another planet, but more of a next of kin, actually. That's all.
plethora:
--- Quote from: Marken on 08 Jun 2009, 00:59 ---
--- Quote from: frullic on 07 Jun 2009, 22:50 ---what do you expect from linux? if you want something done nicely and well ask a mac
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Sorry! can't stand it any more!
Your new generation macs are UNIX based operating systems (as is linux), using intel chips. Mac IS a PC, just a very fancy one. In reality one can achieve the same result in ease of use and visual aesthetics, buying a lightweight netbook and installing a user friendly linux distribution, i.e. Ubuntu. Same result, but a lot, a LOT cheaper.
Now that said.
(Once again, i apologize)
Considering linux being built from the start with multi-user functionality in mind, does that make linux based anthro-pc's a bit... schicophrenic?
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Would you like your internet gift-wrapped, sir?
Jace:
--- Quote from: guyy on 07 Jun 2009, 23:43 ---Yeah, but being an ultralisk, it sounds to me like Pintsize wants to become God by vaporizing himself.
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This is how I read it.
Border Reiver:
Sounds like the robot version of "Seemed like a good idea at the time."
ekafrikay:
--- Quote from: Marken on 08 Jun 2009, 00:59 ---Mac IS a PC, just a very fancy one.
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True, if you take PC in its most literal meaning of "Personal Computer". In the media and popular culture, however, PC usually is used to refer to a computer which runs Windows. So by that definition, an Apple computer is not a PC unless you make it run Windows, which until a few years ago wasn't possible without a large amount of hacking.
And even though OSX is based on Unix, saying that its comparable to any flavor of Linux isn't really fair, as the user friendliness (especially to non-techy people) and stability of OSX is unmatched by Linux or any other operating system I've tried (although Windows 7 comes close).
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