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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
Why don't they 'simply work'?
I've found them to 'work' with less 'work' (on my part) and with very high reliability.

And might you elaborate on these 'fair share of problems'?
I've found my users to complain much much less when they've been moved to OSX; while they can do more.

Btw, when I mention UI/UX, it's not about how things look. It's about general user interaction, from setup, usage, maintenance, migration, etc.

I'm not gonna go over the difference point by point, but I've made my choice after reviewing as many of the available options as I can. It's all subjective anyway. Some people enjoy spending their weekends tinkering with their gadgets, most other think that they can spend their time better elsewhere. Neither is wrong *shrugs*.

As for the question of 'Which OS is more user friendly/easier to use' (ie: just works), I would actually pose that question to tech neophytes than ask fellow enthusiasts. Because they mostly don't have an existing tech/ideology bias. I can probably try to quantify and make a list of the specific differences, but that does not give the insight of the common user's point of view.

I don't know about 'It simply works', but it's simpler and quicker to setup, performs better and easier to maintain in general, on top of that the UI/UX is good*.

To me, it's not about how they look... so a simple wm/theme change will not do.



That would make more sense if TMO's domain ends with nokia.com....
Well i work at a government agency where one of my tasks is to help people with technical support. The ones with most problems are Mac users especially if you take in count how big percentage they are.. One guy wanted to reformat and reinstall cause it was to slow. I asked if the computer was old.. he told me it was about 2 years. He was running OSX 10.4. He had bought it to use it as he was an musician and designer. He didn't want to upgrade due to cost. Last week i had three with MacBook Pros that had problems with their USB's. There is always something. But then i moslty just come in contact with those that have problems. I have never owned a Mac myself but have not understood the deal when i have tried others. It is pretty much the same as to use my Ubuntu machine exept in a much much more expensive package.

But true.. it is subjective. I have gotten both my brother and father to switch to Ubuntu. They have so far not have had any problems. They are just happy everything works. My brother is a hobby musician and had a couple of devices i never thought would work with Ubuntu..... but it was pretty much just to connect it. The only "hard" bit was his printer (an wifi pixma mp560). But i just surfed to the company page and downloaded the driver and installed.. no real fuzz.

And i don't know if it become more simpler than open a program -> chose the program you want to install -> install it. Updates can be done with one push of a button or automatic for that matter (you know what i mean as you have used it).

Sure linux does not support all hardware but pretty much works out of the box. I have never encountered a problem since 9.04. Earlier (like in 2006/2007) i had problems with dual screen and bluetooth keyboard.
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