For what it's worth, you won't get any arguments from me about what you use... I mean, yeah, I use OpenOffice but that's just because it's been so damn long since I had a system that would run LaTeX effectively... that and there is the singleton advantage that OpenOffice reads DominantParadigm .DOCuments.... but for what you are likely to use it for (music, science, etc.)? LaTeX is *the* way to go; hell, Knuth purpose-built TeX for such. And good on'ya for keeping the "old school" ways alive. (jeezus, when did 80's tech get to be "old school"?)
And frankly? Windows is abuse, in more ways than I can count. Partcularly 95-98, where you're stuck in god mode all the time whether you like it or not. Anybody that would turn a kid loose on the internet with that swiss cheese of an OS deserves the screams s/he will inevitably be woken with...
OS X is just *different* enough from what you and I grew up with to be really damn confusing. Although I imagine I find it easier than you do because I got so used to shifting gears when I first really got into computers: CCASTGS could log into a pair of Cyber 170's running NOS, a Cyber 180 running NOS/VE, a Pyramid running plain vanilla BSD 4.3, an AT&T 3B20 running the One True Squished'em Vee, a cluster of Sun graphics workstations, another cluster of Macs running System 6 and later System 7, ... and the PC's with Windows 3.1, which I didn't use very much because I had unlimited access to so much better. To me a PC was a big semi-smart terminal.
As for world domination: Frankly, I'd settle for world acceptance. And a belly full of herring.
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And frankly? Windows is abuse, in more ways than I can count. Partcularly 95-98, where you're stuck in god mode all the time whether you like it or not. Anybody that would turn a kid loose on the internet with that swiss cheese of an OS deserves the screams s/he will inevitably be woken with...
OS X is just *different* enough from what you and I grew up with to be really damn confusing. Although I imagine I find it easier than you do because I got so used to shifting gears when I first really got into computers: CCASTGS could log into a pair of Cyber 170's running NOS, a Cyber 180 running NOS/VE, a Pyramid running plain vanilla BSD 4.3, an AT&T 3B20 running the One True Squished'em Vee, a cluster of Sun graphics workstations, another cluster of Macs running System 6 and later System 7, ... and the PC's with Windows 3.1, which I didn't use very much because I had unlimited access to so much better. To me a PC was a big semi-smart terminal.
As for world domination: Frankly, I'd settle for world acceptance. And a belly full of herring.