OSX vs WinXP vs Linux
On my quest of finding an OS that finally gives my a cosy feeling I came across this
comparison. It’s too bad you cannot easily give MacOS X a try. You need to buy a Mac first. Quite an expensive try-out. My personal requirements
have changed within in the last few years. It’s no longer fun for me setting up my system to do all the simple things I’d expect from a OS. The most basic stuff should
“just work” out of the box. …and be rock solid.
Many people seem to have found exactly this with MacOS X. And I almost made the move to become a switcher …but in the end I refrained and kept my current laptop. I love the
Powerbooks from an esthetically point of view. MacOS X might be what I am looking for but my Centrino gives me a much better battery lifetime …especially taking CPU power into
account. Not to talk about the power / price ratio. And I won’t be able to do any x86 development anymore. But maybe that’s the price you have to pay?
I am pretty sure a good Linux distribution could jump in here. Although I love debian it’s still too much work installing it on my laptop. All the
little details you have to care about (suspend-to-disk, ACPI, touchpad, special buttons, etc). Hope the new 2.6 kernel will make things easier. At least on
the first glance Xandros -which is based on debian- looks very interesting.