What Killed the Linux Desktop – Miguel de Icaza
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Many hackers moved to OSX. It was a good looking Unix, with working audio, PDF viewers, working video drivers, codecs for watching movies and at the end of the day, a very pleasant system to use. Many exchanged absolute configurability of their system for a stable system.1
I hesitate to call myself a hacker, but this paragraph pretty much sums it up for me as well.
In my pre-Mac life I had a computer with a Windows (mostly XP) partition for my audio work and a Linux partition for my development work. Nowadays the needs of both jobs happily coexist under the roof of OS X. I can run stable no fuzz audio recording and sequencing programs side by side with a Unix terminal.2
- What Killed the Linux Desktop – Miguel de Icaza ↩
- Yes, off-cource you can do development and audio work on Windows as well. I just love the fact that all the Unix tools that I love to use is available next to my audio tools. ↩
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