that's it, replace a cumbersome-to-use OS with another onerous system.

Onerous, maybe, but endlessly documented, and also cost-free in many cases.

Because really, that's always been one of the values that Apple trades in: their OS appeals to people who are time-poor.

Buttermilk or whatever his name is - he's still essentially clueless. So he doesn't like this latest M$ abortion? Too right - for once M$ tried to compete on the same terms as the competition and look where that landed them. Hehe.

But he thinks the last one was all right? Right there you have to see he's got brain damage. The unthinkable is Linux? These frigtards that can't leave Mummy Windoze - what's the matter with them? I saw them on the WWF list a few years back and I just assumed they'd be all gone by now.

Linux is still better than Windoze. It's better for you too. It means a quanta of malware less on the Internet. And you want that, don't you.

Don't complain if they chose Torvalds. Your alternative is to bump Daddy Steve-0 into manufacturing computers for 1,000,000,000+ people connected today. And that would require cloning and you don't want that again, do you? So be glad not everyone wants to drive or thinks of driving a BMW.

I read this headline and thought... oh I'll bet the Apple crowd won't like his choice of Linux. Sure enough "he's got brain damage", "don't complain because you don't want everyone driving a BMW", "What's the matter with them"... etc.

Linux is "Onerous" and time consuming? Hardly! have you tried it lately? Spend 15 minutes on the net and find out what hardware/PC is well supported by Linux, download Ubuntu and you're up and running.

I used a Mac for work in 2005/2006 and you know what? It is a good OS.... but I don't use it anymore because for me it is no more productive/enjoyable then my 100% functional Ubuntu Laptop that was running in 1/2 hour... I'll take that any day over relying on one vendor for most of my computing experience. Take you're pick. Did you ever stop to think that people make choices based on considerations that are different then your own?

Side note: it's kinda funny that the captcha I have to enter for this post is "WebObjects"... I was a WebObjects (Apple's web development framework) developer. What's going to happen to WebObjects now that it's been stale for so long? ... I guess APPLE will decide that... who every relies on it better cross their fingers and hope it doesn't die a quick death!

Louderbeck should be familiar to the long-term members of the Mac community, he is particularly notorious for his commentary during live coverage of a Steve Jobs keynote. I believe it was on ZNet TV or some other PC-oriented cable channel, Louderbeck would talk and interrupt the coverage while Jobs was still speaking, most of the time Louderbeck would criticize some missing feature and then Jobs would announce that very feature while he was still jabbering.
I note that since Louderbeck's disastrous performance, Apple has never allowed ANY cable network to do live coverage of a Stevenote.

I dont know about you lot but im getting really tired of the amount of anti-MS stuff on TMO. Especially from the guy that wrote this piece. This site is supposed to be "The MAC Observer" the is no Mac stuff at all in this piece.
For me it looks like TMO is going into the feed deadpool.

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I dont know about you lot but im getting really tired of the amount of anti-MS stuff on TMO. Especially from the guy that wrote this piece. This site is supposed to be "The MAC Observer" the is no Mac stuff at all in this piece.
For me it looks like TMO is going into the feed deadpool.

totally agree. I'm a mac enthusiast/stockholder for 20 years, I'm getting tired of so many of us mac users' tendency to become so road-rage-rabid online toward MS, windows, PC's etc.

We don't need to, and Apple sure doesn't need us to.

Sorta like the War on Terror from the White House POV.

all of the people who liked the mac before it was "cool" are the ones who are getting tired of play-by-play anti-ms coverage.

it doesn't make a damn difference to us whether or not apple kicks microsoft's ass-- we have been, are, and will be dedicated to developing our platform regardless.