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                                                      October 3, 2013
                                                   
   Software always sucks.                          
                                      MICRO_SAGA
                                                   
   Logically, in sequence, this would be a         
   good place to talk about the ways in            
   which Apple products suck in my opinion.        
                                                   
   Unfortunately (actually, fortunately for        
   me, I think) none of my knowledge is            
   current, since I resolved to stay away          
   from their stuff some time ago.                 
                                                   
   In summary: I've always find that their         
   claims of "ease of use" and "discoverabilty"          And since Apple fans,
   and so on are greatly exaggerated.                    by my standards,
                                                         are crazy religious
   My experience with Macintosh software:                fantatics, I can't
                                                         trust their advice.
   o  Spending 20 minutes looking for a "set       
      tab" command in the menus and eventually           Maybe it's all better  
      learning they wanted you to drag an icon           now, maybe OSX is just
      into place.                                        the greatest.
                                                   
   o  Sticking my disks in a different                   I wouldn't know.
      machine, and once again getting bizarre            I have no plans
      incompatible laserwriter driver errors.            to find out.
                                                     
   o  Using a graphics program to plot some data     
      and then realizing that I was going to need    
      to go through the same steps over-and-over     
      on the dozens or hundreds of plots I needed    
      to do.                                         
                                                     
                                                     
         Eventually, I'd decided I had enough.       
         Evidentally, I was immune to the            
         Steve Jobs reality warp field.            
                                                   
                                                   
      The next thing to point out after that,                               
      is that the linux desktop has severe         Trying to install on an     
      problems, and linux systems in general       AMD Turion-based laptop,     
      remain clunky in suprising ways, even        and realizing that all        
      to someone like myself who expects there     the obvious distros           
      to be a certainly amount of hassle in        couldn't handle this          
      getting them to work.                        case, many years after        
                                                   the Turion chips had          
                                                   been around...                
               Buying a Lenovo Thinkpad,                                         
               figuring they're the most               I fell back on a 32bit    
               popular, the most obvious               Knoppix install for a    
               platform to support...  and             few years, after which   
               gradually realizing I'm not             the installers had    
               going to see the native wifi            caught up.            
               chip work, ever, not without                      
               some extreme effort on my           
               part (which I'm not going to        
               do, because jacking in with         
               Ethernet is okay by me).            
                                                     
                        (I went with an e-series:      
                        No one told me they weren't
                        *real* thinkpads.)             
                                                       

   Still, it's at least a minor puzzle                 
   to me why so many "guys like me"          Clearly, the "guys
   have abandoned the-- admittedly           like me" are not
   clunky-- linux desktop for the            really all that
   supposedly slick, but distinctly          much like me.
   freedom-challenged and overpriced,              
   post-OSX Macintoshes.                           
                                          
                                          
                                          
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