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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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The issues I've encountered have been mainly related to Unix tools that aren't included in OS X, but that's mostly being addressed by macports and homebrew. Though there are still some kinks here and there that kind of frustrate me as a developer (I'm just so used to the awesome package managers built in on *nix systems), it's been mostly smooth sailing from GNU/Linux land to BSDish Mac.
Linux to Windows..oh my. I can't see myself doing that.
Closest I ever got to really using OS X on my computer was in Virtualbox, and even then it ran so slow it was pretty much unusable for any practical purposes. From a technical standpoint though, yes, the closest thing you're probably going to get to a package manager under OS X would be Macports (App Store is one in name only IMO since it's essentially just a glorified version of whatever's on the iOS devices), and I couldn't even get that working in my virtual install since I didn't have XCode.
I tried running OS X on vbox as well, and it was also slow/unusable. Ever try hackintoshing? It can be a pain as well, but it's mostly usable if your hardware is supported.
The App Store really is a glorified version of the store on iOS apps, haha.
(Unless Apple would be generous enough to throw a bone to non-Apple PC users... or something gets rolling with Darwin, anyway; it is open-source after all and I wouldn't mind seeing someone make an Ubuntu-like system out of it.)
Yeah, even if it works the first time, if Apple pushes out an OS update, it might be problematic.
I know PureDarwin is an ongoing project to build the open source parts of OS X. Check it out: [link]
Ha, Apple's all about their "superior" hardware, so I doubt they'll release their OS to non-Apple hardware. Even though at this point most of the components are pretty standard...
Apple's hardware hasn't really been "better" ever since the POWER-Intel transition. To be fair though, we wouldn't really be able to Hackintosh if it were still on POWER.