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1. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2013 09:16:21 EST Jeff Ratliff

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   • howcanuhavemybackup
   Yes, he wants to give my Mac to someone else and move me to a Linux machine.
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2013 09:28:52 EST Joshua Judson Rosen

     • Jeff Ratliff
     I had to use a Mac for my first few weeks at this job, while waiting for my Linux machine to show up. Painful few weeks, that.
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2013 09:32:25 EST Jeff Ratliff

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     • Joshua Judson Rosen
     You can get used to Mac OS, but it still gets in the way. It's so much better than Windows, though. All my command line tools are there.
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2013 09:33:04 EST Joshua Judson Rosen

     • Jeff Ratliff
     The whole Mac OS experience just felt `cheap'—like Apple just didn't have the dev budget that Debian did.
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   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2013 09:53:31 EST Jeff Ratliff

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     • Joshua Judson Rosen
     It's definitely less flexible. Their multiple desktop implementation OK, but in general they want people to have fewer choices.
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2013 02:05:29 EST Joshua Judson Rosen

     • Jeff Ratliff
     Mac OS has many (not all) CLI tools available; the ones that come with it are frequently more limited than the GNU versions, or just broken.
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2013 02:11:26 EST Joshua Judson Rosen

     • Jeff Ratliff
     That Mac OS's sed couldn't do EOL conversion really pissed me off.
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2013 18:01:00 EST Jeff Ratliff

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     • Joshua Judson Rosen
     Some would say the GNU versions suffer with feature bloat. I have newer git and Ruby versions on the Mac, which I like.
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2013 18:07:26 EST Jeff Ratliff

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     • Joshua Judson Rosen
     Haven't used the sed. I have Perl. I had to alias 'ls' to get it to work right, and it took a few tries to get 'find' to work as expected.