[Technology] Happy Birthday Linux (for yesterday).

[Deleted member 22389]

Program compatibility and the way Apple and Windows lock down a lot of programs is one of the reasons I suspect why Linux users get so passionate about Linux and open source material.

Our daughter used to use Sibelius in a Windows machine and did her music A levels no problem using it. But when going on to do a degree in music, she pretty much had no choice but to start using Logic Pro as well, which of course meant being forced to buy a Mac Book.

It's this practice of locking things down that has always made me, as a pretty basic computer user, never go near Apple anything and eventually got me to convert my old laptops from Windows to Linux. I do the same when it's comes to DAP's for listening to music. Never owned an iPod and never would. Nor an iphone for that matter.

Apple never used to be like this, and that was one of appealing things about buying a Mac.

 

[Superphil]

Apple never used to be like this, and that was one of appealing things about buying a Mac.

The appeal for me buying a Mac is the reliability, performance, product support and huge range of software available.

 

[Simster]

Not just commercial Unixes, but Linux itself probably runs most of the internet including Amazon, Google, Facebook and even parts of the Microsoft empire. ALL of the top 500 supercomputers run Linux.

It is no longer a hobbyist OS and hasn't been for years.

Very true. MS don't even hide the fact that Linux makes up part of their real estate as anyone using servers on MS Azure will know.

 

[1066familyman]

Apple never used to be like this, and that was one of appealing things about buying a Mac.

That's interesting. When and why did that change do you know?

I speak as someone who has never used computers in a professional manner (well I do a tiny tiny bit now, but nothing like you lot on this thread).

My first introduction to computers was just like the rest of Joe public. All I've ever known about Apple is that their products are very very expensive, and on the face of it, for far lower spec than the Windows or Android equivalent. They appear to do marketing exceptionally well and seem to have lots of ways of locking users into the Apple 'eco system'. I don't like that approach at all.