On Jan 25, 2007, at 9:35 AM, Cedric Chang wrote:

> I would be interested to learn what people use for work
>
> 80.35 %       OS X
> 18.29%       WINDOZE
> 00.00%        OS/2
> 01.33%        DOS
> 00.03%        OTHER
>
It's fundamentally the wrong question.  I use gcc, emacs, and X windows,
and firefox, and a mail reader called "mm."  Most of the time this
is on solaris and/or linux, but my windows laptop does a fine job
as an X-terminal, and so does my mac at home.  I use EAGLE, which
works on both the mac and windows systems.  I use microsoft office
on the windows and mac, and open office instead sometimes. At home,
I use a mac cause it had one of the cheaper big screens (at the time.)
I rather like iPhoto and iMovie, and the Apple Mail.app isn't too bad.
The kids all have windows boxes cause they need their games and such.
I'm willing to run whatever hardware and OS needed to get my job done.
The applications are more important (and frequently more expensive)
than the hardware these days.  I get discouraged if I have to become
too much of a "systems administrator" rather than a user, but that's
happened on all the OSes at one time or another (the most recent really
bad experience was on linux, but it was more a "clueless IT" issue
than a fundamental linux problem.)

BillW
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