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| message from Oreb on 19 Jul 2004 |
As a professional digital photographer, I work with other creative
professionals who use both systems. Many major software applications are
available for each OS and they produce pretty much identical results.
I happen to prefer the PC environment, in spite of Redmond, for two
reasons. First, I can get at the interface. I've worked with PCs, inside
and out, since DOS 6 and like being able to burrow down into the
non-windows environment to fix stuff when all else fails. That's the
reason I stay at Windows 2000 and have "downgraded" (their term not
mine) XP machines back to it. Having tried them, I would not use an XP
machine. Also, Win2K allows me to completely remove vulnerable elements
such as Outlook Express completely from my machine - XP doesn't.
Anyway, that's the first reason. The second is that many of my workflow
applications simply aren't available for the mac OSes. Some have similar
software available, some don't. But I've developed workflows for my
three areas of professional creativity (photography, web design and
writing) and am not inclined to make a change.
But I do have to say that I'd make a huge (really huge) effort to redo
my workflow if a suitable Linux environment were available. It's totally
not comfortable being a real MS-phobe and still using - and, yes,
advocating, their products. Early on they were good and that created the
reason for staying with them, I guess.
Anyway - for graphics and web design, the choice is the UI - both
perform fine.
You knew that. Time to cut bait and fish elsewhere, I'd think.
O.
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| darrel replied to Oreb on 19 Jul 2004 |
FYI, you can do that with OSX as well, as it's Unix at it's core.
Yep. That's pretty much it.
Also, your work environment may make that decision as well. If your web
development is more MS-centric (ASP/.net/etc.) then you'll probably want to
use a windows box. If it's more open source (PHP, MySQL, etc.) then you'll
probably want a linux or OSX box.
Ideally, you'd have both. I tend to work in Windows XP (really, NOT a good
UI), Win2k, Linux Mandrake 9 (for the server stuff) and OSX.
You can't argue that the new Macs are the prettiest of the bunch, though.
;o)
As for reliability, your mileage will vary. My Win2k system is fairly
stable, though my dual-monitor set up + a few Macromedia Apps will cause it
to freeze solid.
The XP machine has been fine.
My two OSX systems go down maybe once every 3 months at the most.
-Darrel
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