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Originally posted by CopsodyX
I'm glad to hear that you're moving away from MS. I think that MS has alienated so many people so fast that there's no way to recover. But we'll see.
OS X has tons of native software available now, mostly in Carbon, but lots in Cocoa. It's stable, not because of what you said, but because it's based upon true Mach UNIX. Nothing can touch your hardware. I've been using my PowerBook G4 with Mac OS X since March 25, 2001, and I've never had a crash/kernel panic, and have only rebooted for updates. Never a security hole, except in the Mac OS X native versions of MICROSOFT IE and Office.
I routinely run lots of small apps and utilities, Adobe graphics packages, Apple FCP and DVD Studio, MS Office, OmniWeb, Flash, GC, Virtual PC (Run WinXP on your Mac, w/o threat of viruses and crashes), and tons more. Never a crash.
Now, i'm not saying that people should leave their PCs in the dust -- no need to give up your hardware...just put Linux on it! Linux is brilliant, and Mac OS X is VERY Linux-like, right down to it's UNIX based open sourced core.
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I'm not actually moving away from MS products as much as MS is pushing me away.
My computer is the opposite from yours. You run MS products on a non-MS machine. I refrain from using MS products on my XP machine. I have and will continue to use Netscape, Lotus and Wordperfect instead of IE/OE and MS Office.
Linux is good for people who do little more than browse the Internet (for now). Office Suites are getting better and gaming support is constantly evolving but will never reach the level of compatibility included with Windows XP. I have used Linux on several occasions with success and failures but still require Windows for my main tasks.