Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/27
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brian,
you know more about computers than i ever will, and it shows!
congrats on the mac and the noctilux!
- -rei
p.s. not to recusitate a dead argument, but i like the fact that your mac
line-breaks your emails nicely whereas your windoze box wrap's em
round and round and round.
> From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>
> > Just curious, Brian, but why did you switch to Mac after 5 years of PC
> > (Unix?) use ?
>
> I'm unwilling to become more of a Microsoft vassal, which XP would require.
> Microsoft is forcing the issue by evolving away from the relatively
> harmless Windows 95/98/Me.
>
> Everything that really matters to me is on back-end server computers which
> run open-source Unix (FreeBSD), so it's really an issue of what I use for
> my desktop. I chose Mac over Linux because the application programs that I
> use the most (email, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, iTunes, Netscape)
> work better on Mac than on Linux. I also like the Java development
> environment on the Mac better. And, I must confess, I got a really nice
> discount on the gorgeous Apple Studio Display, which doesn't work at all
> with Linux.
>
> I've now gone 2 weeks using my Mac for everything (including connecting to
> my servers), so it seems to be working.
>
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