![]() It had a consistent and working graphical user interface which didn’t tell me it couldn’t work. It had access to command-line compatible with linux (Darwin, the underlying system or OSX is based on NetBSD, a “cousin” of linux). With OS X, I found a very good compromise I was looking for. I could afford to buy a MacBook 13 inch (black), in 2007! My first mac :) and I found relief. Hopefully, time changed a bit, new life, new job, better paid. I used a Windows machine as less as possible, having still Ubuntu on another partition and a double boot. I couldn’t understand why I needed to be notified at the worst moment during a presentation, to update the whole system, and if I didn’t, the machine would crash. I didn’t understand why for no visible reason, the monitor wasn’t recognised, or USB stopped to work, or why every time I plugged a USB key on a new socket, Windows needs 1 minute to install the driver. I had to update constantly (every month) manually all drivers to have my machine work normally. In short, I couldn’t understand why the path to some files was in other places than what the Windows Explorer was. With my linux background, this was quite difficult. The big premise is: entering the Microsoft eco-system of thinking, means you need to dive headfirst in it. Apple was simply out of reach, thanks to the price. At the time (around 2003), you had Windows and OSX, the choice was quite simple. I decided to keep Debian based distribution for servers and switch to another OS for the desktop. It was a pain that grew little by little to the point of being above my limit of resistance. I had to edit myself the X11 (then later X.org) configuration files manually to enter the specific parameters of my monitors. I don’t know why, but all my monitors never were recognized. I had joy, except when you have to update or change versions. Quite naturally, I started looking into linux distributions, installed Redhat, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and Mint years after years. They were a really good machine, and the latter introduced me to the command line (despite being all graphical interfaces). A long, long time ago, not in a far distant galaxy, I used a Commodore 64, then a 128 and finally Amiga 500. ![]()
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