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Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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post #9

Probably should have allowed an option for *BSD. I suppose "other Unix variant" is sort of approximately the same thing, but the former would be more clear.

Actually, I'd be curious what Nix people are using other than GNU/Linux and BSD. Solaris? Unix proper - does anybody still really use that?

Doesn't really answer your question, but it's an interesting fact that OS X is officially a 'UNIX proper' (see http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification).

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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post #12

I am not from the valley and it is heart-warming to see Linux beat out OSX. Especially considering the number of mac books I have seen engineers carry about, the couple of times I have been there.

Some of us run Linux on our MacBooks.

It is clearly the best of both worlds.

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Mac OS X only because I refuse to use Windows and I need Photoshop.

That's the major stumbling block for me; slowly I'm moving towards Linux but I still need photoshop. I look forward to the day when design teams produce their work in something other than that monolithic software. Don't get me wrong, it's an amazing tool, but there's no need for anything that complex in web design.

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Mac OS X only because I refuse to use Windows and I need Photoshop.

Exact situation but in reverse. (Windows but only because I refuse to use Mac OS and I need Photoshop.)

I tried GIMPing it under various Linux distros for a while but it's just not comparable.

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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post #27
post #19

The day is coming when Chrome, Firefox, Safari will be the poll options.

I highly doubt this. Not even tablets will run on top of browsers. Developers will never give up a real operating system. You just can't develop on consumer devices like the iPad; these are designed for consumers, they come with many limitations to make the consumer's experience easy and smooth, but at the cost of hackability.

"Developers will never give up a real operating system."

I always hesitate to use the word never. Things can change very rapidly. What developers need now may not be anything like what we need in 5 years.

But more importantly, what a "real operating system" is will probably change in the next 5 years.

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