tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post1973780680090135327..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Quick Roundup 455Gus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-39553896675990169652009-08-06T16:15:49.202-06:002009-08-06T16:15:49.202-06:00My view of which OS is best for a given person dep...My view of which OS is best for a given person depends on a wide variety of factors, some objective (e.g., What can you do? How secure can you be? What does it run on? How well-supported is it/does it need to be?) but not all necessarily always superior even for a given purpose for a given OS; and some more a matter of taste. I will readily concede that Windows is best for many people in most circumstances, Apple in others, and Unix/Linux in others. Linux is best for most of what I do and it suits my tastes in many ways, but you won't hear me trying to get everyone else to use it. (Not that I'm above smack talk or slamming design choices (as above) that appear poor or deliberately obtrusive to me.)Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-86371196414820283972009-08-06T14:51:40.660-06:002009-08-06T14:51:40.660-06:00Hehe fair enough. I know no Objectivist is going ...Hehe fair enough. I know no Objectivist is going to take proselytizing on faith, so just saying Macs are awesome won't cut it with you. But I remember you posting about why Linux meets your needs better, so in your case it sounds like you have your answer already. Even as a Mac owner, I'll concede that it makes no sense to pay the Apple tax if you don't plan to run OS X.<br /><br />Anyway I also want to note, good catch on the Sunstein/flag issue. I read those other pages' analyses also and I think they're right on. I think you could even have gone further with the 1984 connection, but you conveyed the essentials so obviously it worked. Isn't this the very aesthetics of fascism, a government stoking a culture that worships the state, as it were?REhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00552535397929988865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-88659446913613482092009-08-06T11:07:12.751-06:002009-08-06T11:07:12.751-06:00Heh! You Mac guys -- You're at least the third...Heh! You Mac guys -- You're at least the third to do so. -- like to talk trash, don't you!<br /><br />But yeah. I do remember when it didn't seem like every web page was "enhanced" with scripts that made them slow-loading/slow-rendering.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-55099448970978198752009-08-06T10:02:47.743-06:002009-08-06T10:02:47.743-06:00Hehe 1GB vs. 6GB of RAM. Remember when we could s...Hehe 1GB vs. 6GB of RAM. Remember when we could surf the net just fine with a Pentium-75 with 8 megabytes of RAM? :) The more things change...<br /><br />That said I wouldn't give up my new iMac for any Wintel box, no matter how buff.REhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00552535397929988865noreply@blogger.com