THURSTON ACKERMAN wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

RJT>It does take a bit more effort than the stuff you get when you
RJT>hand things to the guys from Redmond,  who won't let you do it your 
RJT>way,  they insist that you do it _their_ way.  Which may or may not 
RJT>work for some people -- it sure doesn't work for me.  I don't think 
RJT>that most people are aware of the fact there even exists a choice 
RJT>with this.

TA> Does your stigmation also apply to the Apple-MacIntosh system or
TA> only the competition by the guys from Redmond?

I guess you're referring to the above paragraph?  In the case of the mac,
you're definitely locked into doing things their way,  but it also seems
that the most recent version of what they're offering for an OS has linux
underneath,  so I'm not real sure about them.

I do know that my brother,  who's a self-described "GUI kinda
guy" also has one or more macs.  And that the couple of times I've
messed with them (not recently) the UI felt more like it was getting in my
way than helping me do anything.

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