Luxiake
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editHello, Luxiake, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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Re: your comments on Blackcats' talk page
editMy whole position on the Mac thing and software in general...
I grew up using more DOS, then Windows, and still use that on my home computer. I pretty much just use Mac for video editing. The studio that I work at has several G5s with Final Cut Pro, and I've been using that for video production projects. The PowerMac G5s seem to be good robust hardware, and a lot of top of the line video/graphics software tends to cater to MacOS, but I agree with a lot of the critiques of Apple too. In many ways Apple's stuff (especially their whole "i" series) seems to be to be overly dumbed down and actually give you a lot less choice and control than even the ever-villified Windows. I still bring in a three button USB mouse with me, because I can't stand the one-button Mac mice.
As for software and opperating systems, I'm philosophically 100% in favor of free/open-source software. But for me to want to use it, it has to be at least fairly easy to use with a good graphical interface. Firefox I think is a great example for other free software projects to try and emulate in that regard. There really shouldn't have to be a choice between a software or OS being easy to use (or "just working") and having it fully allow you to change it and have total control. For example, a good free/open source OS would have a command line interface for those users with the ability and desire to use it, but the user would be able to carry out all basic administrative type tasks (like installing new software or hardware, changing the date and time, setting up network connections, etc.) with just the graphical interface. A CLI is great for some people, and every OS should have that option, but I'm too busy using my computer to have time to memorize a bunch of code and syntax to enter in every time I need to do something.
I had a friend a year or so ago who was really into Linux and convinced me to try it out as a dual-boot on one of my partitions. And I was gonna install Cinellera, which he said was a really good video editor, and I downloaded it, but couldn't get it installed. I took the computer over to his house, and he hacked away at it for a couple hours before he managed to finish the installation. He had always been telling me how Linux was so easy, and my distribution was supposed to be an easy one, but I remember thinking to myself "If a Linux geek like him has to struggle that much just to install a simple piece of application software, then what hope does someone like me have?!" I know Linux has made a lot of progress in the last few years, but I think they still have a ways to go. For one, the people doing all the major distributions need to get together and agree on a simple and standardized way to have software applications be packaged for easy installation. Also, if someone can throughly hack NTFS (or even HFS) that would be a great step towards compatability.
So yeah - as soon as someone comes out with a good free/open-source OS then I'll deffinately see about switching. Usability is the number one thing, but compatablity with other OSes is deffinately a huge plus too. So far, ReactOS seems to be showing progress, but it's way to early in it's development to be anyone's primary OS. OpenDarwin could be too, maybe...
Anyhow, if you wanna talk with me off the record, then you're welcome to email me - WikiBlackcats@yahoo.com - but that email is just for Wikipedia and I dont' check it reguarlly at this point, so be sure to leave a message on my talk page again to let me know that you've written... Blackcats 03:05, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
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