almost a happy X camper

Mac OS X is now my operating system and I hate to leave it or even to boot Classic. Why do I like X so much: preemptive multitasking means that I can *always* click away from a busy app and continue working—no more waiting for Toast to burn a disk to get back to work; absolutely great memory management means that I can have all of my most used apps open all the time; and finally, when an app crashes (a rare occurence) it doesn’t bring down the machine or any other apps; having a Unix base means that I can, as a web designer, have a complete Apache server on my laptop, along with php, mySql, and cgi scripts and can develop complete sites locally. Notice that I specifically haven’t mentioned the dock or the aqua interface as reasons to use X.

Unfortunately, there are still a few apps that are sorely missing native versions, specifically Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, EZNote and a driver for my Adaptec SlimSCSI card.

There’s been an upside to this. I hate running Classic so much that I find myself doing simple photo corrections in Graphic Converter, find myself hand coding sites in BBEdit rather than relying on Dreamweaver (and getting *much* cleaner code as a result.) So, in the end, it’s the unlikely lack of a driver for my SCSI adapter to run my slide scanner and the great-beyond-words EZNote that make me use Classic. Weird.

Posted by timswan at February 28, 2002 09:41 AM