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I have to agree with Chris, that there is a substantial tax for being a Mac user. MS Office and other applications often cost more. I had to buy a number of upgrades when moving to Tiger, and my Tiger experience was very painful on one machine. I was at Apple during the PPC and OS X migrations. I saw far more resources going into the PPC migration. A lot of the compatibility issues that Apple tracked in the PPC migration are now left to the user community. I got frustrated with Dreamweaver and just installed Nvu since it is free. I'm tired of paying a software tax just to keep my software running. I don't need new features, I would like iDVD, iTunes, third party apps and iPhoto to run well and not crash or hang randomly. It's really time to clean up the problems and get the user interface back under control. Finally we may never know why Apple moved to Intel, but in the end it was about making more money and that money comes from users.

I like the description of the Linux world as "gypsy tents." I just downloaded and installed Nvu on my Mac. I was hoping to compare it to a Linux version. I figured it shouldn't be too hard given I run three distributions of Linux on two different hardware platforms. The information on the Nvu site didn't offer hope for someone of my Linux skill set so I did a google search and found lots of folks searching the tents and asking questions. There were lots of folks willing to answer the questions but they usually had questions in response that were well beyond me. The only dependencies that I care about are plugging my PowerBook into its power supply.