Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : 2twisty
From : boraxman
Date : Tue Apr 19 2022 21:42:58

 2t> As someone who worked in desktop support for many years supporting
 2t> Windows, Linux and MacOS, I do feel that taking a novice computer user
 2t> from start to productive is slightly easier on MacOS than the others.
 2t> 
 2t> Of course, it al depends on what their colleagues are using -- getting a
 2t> new user up on MacOS when they are surrounded by Windows users is much
 2t> harder since they can't easily get advice from the guy sitting next to
 2t> them.
 2t> 
 2t> That said, I despise MacOS due to Apple's general "do it our way or piss
 2t> off" attitude (that Microsoft seems to have adopted lately). I no longer
 2t> own any Macs or Apple products because of my disdain for their inflated
 2t> prices and walled garden approach to apps. Android isn't much better
 2t> these days, sadly.
 2t> 

I find both Windows and Mac OS limiting, though Windows moreso because I can work some magic with the unix tools.

Using Windows feels like doing a job with one hand tied behind your back.  Whenever I think of some way to solve a problem, to do something, I usually can't, as the system is locked down and the tools I have pretty weak.

Agree with your objection about Apple.  It is more insidious than that, they are creating systems which teach people to be helpless and spoonfed, that what they use should be determined by someone elses (the corporations) vision and not their own.

I'm going to install Linux on the MacBook for the kids, because I don't want them to think that computers are something that someone else controls and dictates.

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