Comment Re:Spinning disks have left this customer (Score 1) 681
I don't own one, so my experiences are based upon using my girlfriend's macbook. However, I thought I'd try and explain why I feel OSX is inferior to Linux. This is what I feel of course, and reflect my own priorities on what is important to me.
1. A modern unix. Using OSX is like using Solaris 2.4. Most of the commands I want are either missing, or are the limited functionality non-GNU versions.
2. A better GUI. You may laugh at this, but I find a simple GUI like lxde to be much easier to use than OSX. I especially dislike closing an application and not having it actually close, just hide the main window. If I'm closing it, I expect it to close.
3. A functional keyboard. Her macbook is missing useful keys like page up and home. And a delete key (backspace != delete)
4. Customization. I can make linux act and look just how I want. With OSX I'm limited to what Apple allows me to change. And since it's not my laptop anyway, I can't even do that, just suffer with an OS that tries to prevent me from doing what I want to do.
5. Software selection. With portage, I can quickly and easily install just about anything I could want with a simple command. As Apple likes to say, it just works.