Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Snit Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: Why do I need to run Linux again? Seriously Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:26:34 -0700 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <41c0852c-6e86-4c75-9c44-a6eb58187df5@w7g2000pre.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net pYjeP6EDpe7iWrcS2zns+AZZCe26Wy6s0KSeGoSMLzYcl/ncNl Cancel-Lock: sha1:36J6J/Pw3aJwP/AMNH33r2Df+cc= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.28.0.101117 Thread-Topic: Why do I need to run Linux again? Seriously Thread-Index: Acv75hX66EQ0/XM4ck2v8sstJoMorQ== Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.advocacy:16017 comp.os.linux.setup:283 The Natural Philosopher stated in post iob1ou$msr$1@news.albasani.net on 4/15/11 8:17 PM: >>>> What do you think might break? >>>> >>> Any one of the terrible things I bodged to get it working in the first >>> place. Salvaged from the wreckage of another mac whose disk had partly >>> died..the only repository of programs for which the installation disks >>> have long vanished. >>> . >> >> One: with few exceptions, Mac programs can just be dragged to a disk to >> "install" them. Super easy to back them up... easier than on Windows or >> Linux (though with repositories you can re-install Windows programs pretty >> easily). >> >> Two: the fact you cannot name a single thing that might break is curious. > > well it broke the font management last time I did anything and it took > me nearly 8 hours of net research to find someone who actually seemed to > know the file layouts and where corruption might have happened. Broke the font management? What happened? > I simply don't have the time for two weeks of my wife shrieking that > some legacy program she cant do without no longer works, or the money to > replace the $6000 of software that's on that machine. Again: what programs? > Owning a MAC is like owning a Jaguar. As long as money is no object, > you and the mac dealer will get on just fine..but there are no low cost > options ..;-) No doubt that you cannot get a new Mac as cheaply as you can get a new Windows machine. As for the rest of your comments, to vague to really be that meaningful. Chances are you can upgrade just fine if you wanted to. -- [INSERT .SIG HERE]