Windows sucks

[figmo]

I had to say it. This isn't a "religious" thing; it's a post from someone who is frustrated at all the crap she has to run to keep her system from getting invaded by stuff.

People keep saying Macs are more expensive, but when you add the maintenance costs to the Windows boxes and note that the Mac will be useful for a longer period of time, Macs turn out to be cheaper.

I just wish Adobe would effing port FrameMaker to MacOSX or Linux so I wouldn't have to run Windows at all.

I now go back to making my systems usable so I can get back to work. :-(

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[howeird]

The big diff between the reliable Mac and the not so reliable Windows: Apple has a lock on what hardware you can put into the box, and this greatly reduces the range of OS, software and driver issues.

I'm puzzled about Adobe not porting FrameMaker to Mac. After Unix, Apple was the first port for Frame, and Adobe has a history of creating almost identical products on Mac and PC. Maybe the architecture they inherited when they bought Frame way back when has them handcuffed.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Um, no.

When Apple first announced MacOSX, Adobe asked the at-the-time Mac FrameMaker base if they were likely to switch to OSX anytime soon.

Given the history of how things work with Apple, they of course said, "No!" You don't rush to switch to a new version of MacOS if you're afraid it'll break stuff, and this was a total rewrite.

Had they asked, "Do you think you'll want to run FrameMaker on OSX in a year or two," the answer would've been "HELL YES!" Unfortunately, they didn't ask that, and some high mucky-muck decided it wasn't worthwhile to port FrameMaker to MacOSX because "nobody will buy it."

There has been a petition of over 1000 people who have pledged they would buy a MacOSX FrameMaker if it existed, but trying to get whoever made the foolish decision to not port FM at all to change their mind has been futile so far.

Ironically, the whole reason I started using Macs was because FrameMaker ran on them and not on PCs!