This week marks several years since I have last tried to use Linux on the desktop, and I like the progression the platform has made. It is nice to know that if the Mac completes its transition to iOS I will have an alternative operating system to look forward to...
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Who knows, with the way Mac OS is headed maybe I will switch to Linux full time before iOS over simplifies the operating system I have been using since before I knew anything else.
The direction Apple seems to be going lately has me fearing that one day in the somewhat near future the Mac won't be a viable platform for me. Between sandboxing and making features like iCloud support Mac App Store only1, I can easily see a future where AppleScript is dead, the UNIX underpinnings of OS X are inaccessable, and we just have iOS on a laptop. That's a future I don't want to live in. Like Thomas, I've been experimenting with Linux again. I have a few different distros set up in VMWare Fusion and I can see the strides they have made since I was a full time Linux user years ago. It's reassuring to find a workable alternative is out there for me if I need it.
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Hell, even iCloud itself bugs me, but that's a rant for another day. ↩
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