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Comment by reginaldjcooper | Hacker News Reader

reginaldjcooper

Why I moved from Linux to Mac OS X (2006): Oh, hey, it's a beautiful Unix laptop and it doesn't need any tweaking for the wi-fi to work. I'll buy this and recommend it to my family also.

Why I moved from Mac OS X to Linux (2012): They're obviously pushing for a walled garden experience just like the iPhone, which is reprehensible enough on its own to warrant a boycott against the whole company.

The PC users laughing that you cannot change the parts are right. It reduces quite a lot of the expense if you can swap out just the CPU or just the GPU. But hey, let's glue the ram into out laptops and overcharge for real capacity.

What's this thing Objective-C developers were tweeting this week, you have to be pre-approved to get a certificate that signs kexts? Fuck Apple, I'm tired of it and I have learned my lesson. I'm going with Android or Firefox OS for mobile and Linux or BSD for computing.

I agree entirely and followed a similar path to what you did. I switched from linux to OS X in 2004. I'm looking to switch back, but the linux desktop experience hasn't changed much if at all in the intervening years. Elementary OS gives me hope, but it just mimics the OS X look and feel, but uglier.

What's keeping the linux community from creating a beautiful UI for linux? Is it because UI designers don't get involved in open source projects?

> They're obviously pushing for a walled garden experience just like the iPhone, which is reprehensible enough on its own to warrant a boycott against the whole company.

There's no evidence they're doing this. For average users there's signed applications, and it's literally a single checkbox to disable them if you don't like it. There's also no requirement for any applications to be signed.

> It reduces quite a lot of the expense if you can swap out just the CPU or just the GPU.

You have never, ever been able to do this with an Apple laptop.

The walls are already going up. To use iCloud integration you need to be installed through the OSX app store. Apple wants the control and they want their 30%. Microsoft is trying to do the same thing through Windows 8 and in a very similar way.

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