To start listing what I have running at the moment would be far too geeky. Vista is one of the few versions of Windows and Windows server that I am not running usefully. Thank God for VMware is what I say - which is running on my two Centos server boxes hosting all the Windows servers.
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However due to the demands of these OSs they're not great for server based tasks as too much wasted overhead providing a desktop.
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With the ridiculously cheap price of CPU cycles and memory I tend to find teh I/O subsystems become limiting way before the desktop overhead.
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Vista i find needs lots of ram - 2Gb or so. Give it that it runs very nicely and it does have some nice improvements over XP.
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What improvements over XP?
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Linux is...
The only system i'd never touch with a bargepole is a mac...It also offers far less in the terms of useful software and really can see no advantage over linux.
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Apart from being un-geeky, simple to use, with an app installer that works, consistent documentation and online help, the approachable user community etc...
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To me a mac is just a very overpriced very of linux with a snazzy GUI and some anti-competitive features.
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Personally I think the key to appreciating a Mac is to stop looking at it like a geek.
I would be interested to hear what frustrations you have had with OSX though?