renaissance poisson

There are four apple machines in the house (there were six, but two have gone away to school). Stacey upgrades her desktop and laptop each time one comes out. Almost no problems. The last round, though, has screwed up her cannon printer driver. The cannon prints just fine from the laptop, but, from the desktop, the output is VERY pale. But those have been the only problems.

The other two machines, however, are a different story. Two more desktops. Same model as Stacey's. The last upgrade will not install on either machine. It gets part way through and has a fatal error. It stops at the same place reliably on each machine. It is a different place on each machine, though.

A couple of times I have ssh'd into Stacey's desktop to fix some problem or another that we couldn't find a gui way to fix. It is nice that one can get a shell. It is also nice that x11 will run on an apple machine. Stacey can run almost any bsd/linux software.

It is difficult to do manual intervention on the machine in that Apple has taken over the permissions/accounts system. Sigh.

All in all, I like the apple better than a windows machine. Although a lot of software that was written for microsoft then ported to apple doesn't work all that well or has missing features. Quciken is one. But most of that software has been cloned in open source and runs full-featured on my linux machine.

If I were to start over I would have had a mac from the early days and microsoft would never have gotten a dime.

All that said, you can buy your upgrade online, can't you? and have it shipped. Hunkerers of the world unite!

Love.