Tim O'Reilly on Unix To Mac Switchers.

Tim O’Reilly has some things to say about Switchers, this time from Linux and other Unixen to Mac OS X. When Mac OS X was on the horizon, the people who were most excited about it, and understood what the real implications were, were the kinds of geeks who read SlashDot.       The non-geeks, let’s call them freaks as they are the ones on the artier end of the equation, either failed to understand what X was at all, or could not see what all the fuss was about, and still have not made the switch from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X.       This article also has a number of stories from people who have switched to the Mac from Windows and various Unixen. Here are quotes from two of them. “I quit having fun with computers. Windows 2000? No fun. Windows ME? No fun. Windows 98, Windows XP? No fun. Then I got a new job, where I had to support Macs. So I got a used PowerBook G3. OS 9 was OK. But OS X? Shiiineeeeey. And fun! Computing was fun! A computer, was fun. Laughing at the viruses that tried to infect my computer, was satisfying… and fun!”       “Like a lot of my pals (and tons of other folks as well), I switched from fighting linux on the desktop to OSX and I never want to go back (I never ever want to touch another windows box, as well). linux is a great server platform, no question, but I look back at the last couple of years of literally fighting with the linux desktop as a waste of my time.”       The common thread to these readers’ responses is that OS X just works compared to Linux. O’Reilly’s conclusion: “Apple may be wise to target Unix/Linux rather than Windows in their switch campaign.”