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> >But having to deal with trojans, viruses and crashes is just one of
> >life's simple pleasures?
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> Don't have any, so far.
Fate, tempted, replies with: http://macintouch.com/opener.html
> OS X almost never crashes, and if an individual program freezes or
> quits, everything else is undisturbed. And it's so pretty.
OSX isn't so bad, granted, though at the one place I've seen it used in earnest, a majority of techies and (surprisingly) users preferred the linux boxes: once you get beyond the prettiness, the quirkiness of the networking and so-so bang-for-buck argue against it a fair bit.
>If I want to, I can get down to the UNIX level, but why would I want
>to type command lines full of pipes and switches and parms and all
>that crap I'm happy to have left way behind?
Personally, I find it far more effective. De gustibus, and all that, but I don't think any of the current user-facing software is much cop; probably OSX is the best of a sorry bunch.
John