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edscoble:

--- Quote from: Valrus ---Guys c'mon, they said don't turn it into a windows vs mac flame war and instead you turn it into a war that's not even related to the original topic?
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since it's a war? a war usually saying that PC suck and windows rock, a war usually saying accusation of something that aren't even true.

did I mentioned anything like 'I don't like Linux' or 'Windows sux" etc.? nah, I was stating the difference and why the 'user friendly' of Linux is a myth, but did I says it suck? nah, I'm an all-OS lad.

Bunnyman:
Oh snap!

Linux being user friendly?  Seriously, dawg, you gotta narrow that one down.  KANOTIX?  Hell yes.  Slackware?  Hell no.

SpacemanSpiff:

--- Quote from: edscoble ---A lots of regular people using computers nowadays have been at it for quite a while on Windows, they have a basic understanding of how things work, regular people do not know what it's mean to 'mount a drive' etc. as they shouldn't have to, they don't want to learn what 'home' mean in Linux and how it's differ  'My Documents'
when they met with a choice between Helix Player, CD Player, and Music Player? Does the Music Player not understand CDs? What does "Helix" mean?
it's more of an alternated than an replacement, user friendly? I put linux in my grandfather's PC and he's clearly puzzle and dislike the fact he have to 'unlearn' a lots of thing just to mess with Linux.
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I don't really want to get off-topic too much here, but with the same reasoning you could say that Windows users can't switch to OS X. Every OS behaves slightly differently and Windows is not necessarily more logical.
Case in point: One of my flatmates has been using Linux exclusively for the past years but recently got interested in WoW. This guy has no clue how to use Windows beyond the simplest of things and is constantly confused and annoyed by its "illogical" GUI.

Also, Slackware is user friendly. It's the only distro I can use. Slackware rules.

As for switching from Windows to Mac: I've thought about it myself (the MacBook Pro is one nice machine) but in the end the fact that it has an EFI BIOS which means that Windows is a complete no-go and Linux is a fucking pain in the ass to install will most likely prevent me from getting one because I like playing some games every now and then.
And as of now, you can't play any games on the x86 Macs because all Mac games are PPC-optimized and the Rosetta emulation will slow them down so much that they'll either look ugly or are unplayable, at least the new games.

Oooh, huge edit!
If anybody here has an x86 Mac, could you download Darwine and test it with some classic Windows games like Starcraft maybe? Because if Wine works in OSX, the whole thing would become a lot more attractive again...

Mnementh:
WoW is already universal binary, so it's native x86 on Mac.  As for user friendly Linux distros, I'd have to say Ubuntu is cake to install and use.

Catfish_Man:

--- Quote from: SpacemanSpiff ---Oooh, huge edit!
If anybody here has an x86 Mac, could you download Darwine and test it with some classic Windows games like Starcraft maybe? Because if Wine works in OSX, the whole thing would become a lot more attractive again...
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I've seen pics of WinZip and Mine Sweeper running... what else do you need? ;)

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