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Originally Posted by Gavin
OSX is a good solution, and entirely possible under Linux... If didn't contradict the most basic principal of linux and unix. That's modularity and variety.
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Not sure it does. What most people refer to as OSX is a closed source add on to Free BSD.
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OSX is a singlular solution, but the reason why so many distros exist with different kernels even, is because Linux wasn't supposed to be singular solution. Which is good in that you get a lot of choice... But bad in that it lacks consistency. Like the packaging managers for example. You get RedHat's RPM, Debian's DEB.
Distro creators really need to start working together and coming up with some common (not singular) solutions to the problems.
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The problem for Linux is that to take off in the home market, it needs to just work. Little reconfiguring. Users also need to be sure that the software they buy or download will work, and isn't compiled for a different distribution.
One advantage of Windows is that 90% of the time, it just works with a little wizard-based configuration. The Mac is the same, except it has the advantage that Apple has full control over the hardware, so it is a little more reliable. Both platforms have the advantage that if you install a piece of software for that platform, you can be fairly sure it will work (obviously, it may require something you don't have)
I'm not knocking Linux. Far from it. I experiment with Linux from time to time, and the two devices I have that use varients of Linux are incredibly reliable. My old WRT router gets rebooted whenever a new version of DD-WRT is released, and my Tivo only gets rebooted if there is a power cut.