Chrononautic Log: I know exactly how you feel

I know exactly how you feel

9 o'clock, June 10, 2005

Jamie Zawinski, old-school hacker, nightclub owner, author or co-author of XEmacs and xscreensaver and various versions of Netscape, has finally punted on Linux in favor of MacOS:

Remember last week, when I tried to buy exactly the same audio card that 99.99% of the world owns and convince Linux to be able to play two sounds at once? Yeah, turns out, that was the last straw. I bought an iMac, and now I play my music with iTunes.

This took . . . let me see . . . just about zero effort. Well, I still have to go buy some longer audio cables, but that's it.

I plugged a mouse with three buttons and a wheel into the Mac, and it just worked without me having to read the man page on xorg.conf or anything. Oh frabjous day.

Go ahead and say “I told you so” if it makes you feel better. . . .

Dear Slashdot: please don't post about this. Screw you guys.

Chris is administrator on our PCs at work and at home, so I can't say that I personally ever "ran" a Linux box. The PowerBook was my first big step into computer self-reliance.

For the record, most of the "hardcore", slashdot-y geeks at work have gone totally Apple-crazy. I doubt any of them are in a position to throw stones, huddled up as they are behind their shiny new G5s and 17" PowerBooks and iPods...

Steve Jobs has nosed into my tent too; I got a little 12" ibook last month and I really like it. That said, I'm not quite ready to give up on my fedora box. It works pretty well, and there's that every-day-is-Christmas feeling when I check yum for the latest new stuff.

("ooooh! there's a new point version of ncurses! IT WILL BE MINE!")

Chrononautic Log

I know exactly how you feel

9 o'clock, June 10, 2005

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