On 20/06/07, Ruth Bygrave rbygrave@ntlworld.com wrote:
My immediate reaction had been "I am now on the Mac platform, I need to find out where the Mac users are". But I kept falling over the advocacy-zealotry and the fact that everybody within 60 miles or so of me seemed to be Mac-ghetto rather than my (admittedly-untypical) switch pattern of "20 years Windows followed by crash-and-burn Linux switch-unswitch, followed by more Windows, followed by: what I actually want is Gorgeous Consumer Stuff and consistent UI to feed the dumb user and Unix to feed the beginner geekery. I shall get a Mac"
I was convinced that Macs were for me when I was dealing with a now former producer at the place where I work. She asked me to help get some data off her PowerBook as the machine needed repair and I found that the UNIX-side to the Mac was pretty good. It could do X, could compile stuff with very little effort and had a very pleasant user interface.
Since then I've been around Macs a lot at work and at home, and at all other times I use Linux workstations. I barely touch Windows these days except on the very odd occasion when particular applications demand it.
And with the advent of VMware Fusion on the Mac (Intel stuff only), I can now run Windows, Linux and Solaris alongside OS X all at the same time (resources permitting).
Regards,
Martyn