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worker201:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Seriously though you sound like the kind of person who'd prefer a Mac, I haven't used one for any great length of time but I'm told it's the best option if you want something easy to use, stable and secure.
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Agreed.  OSX is one of the finest operating systems ever made, in my opinion.  And Apple hardware is good too.  It is super-easy to use - in fact, I had problems when I started with it, because I assumed that some tasks would be much harder to accomplish than they actually were.  But then you pop open X11 or a terminal, and you're basically using a Linux machine.  If you want to - if not, the you don't ever have to see it.  Worth every penny.

BTW, there are plenty of nice IM clients that don't screw you with extras - Trillian is the one I use in Windows, and it supports Yahoo! and AOL.  Gaim for Linux, Adium for OSX.  No need to install crappy programs like AOL or Ymessenger.

BTW2 - Jenda, I have heard a lot of veteran Linux users complain about Ubuntu.  I've never used it myself, so I don't know shit about it.  I've heard good things from newbs, and bad things from vets.  That's all I was saying there.

RaZoR1394:

--- Quote from: worker201 ---OSX sounds like exactly what you are looking for - too bad it isn't available for PCs.  Yet.

Ubuntu seems to be great for beginners.  New users love it, seasoned users hate it.  Sounds like a good place to start to me.
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OSX is available for x86_(64?). It's not available in retail but you can download it and tweak it for it to run nice on your custom built desktop. It even works with SSE2 only processors. However I would still as you recommend Ubuntu as a GNU/Linux distro. But, I wouldn't recommend it if you game a lot. A good idea is to check Wine's and Cedega's database against supported games before you get into business. And remember that Cedega is payware (free cvs sucks). On the other hand you could get an Xbox360 or a standard Xbox to play on which I think is much better.

hm_murdock:
Mac OS X is NOT "available for IA32/IA64. It's designed to run on Apple-branded development machines, and the "final version" will be dependent on Apple hardware as well.

Apple has no intention of becoming an OS vendor. They're simply switching their processors from PPC to IA32.

Do NOT consider running a cracked version of Mac OS X on a generic PC. There's a LOT of work involved that requires prior knowledge of UNIX.

Aloone_Jonez:
This change might be a good thing, will it improve the speed of of the Windows software emulation?

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---This change might be a good thing, will it improve the speed of of the Windows software emulation?
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I'd guess that you could run Windows on the intel macs (you can on the development ones, and I haven't heard that Apple will change this on the final macs), and that wine should work even better for it after a bit ('cause it's like running wine in an x86 GNU/Linux computer, I think).

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