Now for finding reliable news concerning Israel and Palestine . My family was jewish until the Nazis came (I write from Germany), and I can tell you it is near to impossible to find really good information about our topic in Germany. There is only black and white at the moment.

Nope. I love Linux, but I can see why everyone else I know gave up on it a long time ago.

As for Compiz fusion, no I actually don’t use compiz that often any more. It depends mostly on my mood. Sometimes i am in the mood for fancy graphics, but mostly i don’t care for high levels of fanciness. So the normal KDE is fine by me. By the way, KDE 4 includes native desktop effects, so compiz is not needed.

btw did they bring Compiz Fusion into KDE 4 ? i recall they had issues at first

i know you adore OpenSuSe, i used to when in my linux age, just change the links color, sabni 3ama alwan ya zalameh !

First, viruses, worms, exploits ..etc. Of course these things are there for Windows. However, the reason you see them there is because so many people run Windows that hackers have a higher “return on investment” if they write viruses for windows machines rather than Mac or Linux. As a matter since Mac OS X has been becoming popular, Mac OS viruses have started to pop up too. I have actually started seeing some of my friends install an anti-virus on their Macs too.

Viruses, Worms, and other exploits are a real threat. But the answer is simple, install a decent anti-virus software (which looks like something that you might need regardless of which OS you use).

You mentioned AppleScript. Scripting languages in fact exist for every single operating system. There are even cross-platform scripting languages.

Regarding “power users”. I did not assume that everybody is a power user, and I did not assume that everybody should be a power user. Where do you get that assumption from?

Additionally, your comment on how Linux forces everybody to use the command line is simply not true. As a matter of fact, the opposite is the main reason for the success of today’s most successful Linux Distro (Ubuntu). Your experience with Linux was with the Fedora distro which is not for newbies. Actually, I hate Fedora . If you really want to see a truly newbie oriented distro check out LinuxMint or Ubuntu (actually LinuxMint is better in this situation).

Just to make my point concrete. My little sister uses LinuxMint on her computer. She is by no means a power user. Actually I don’t think she even knows what a command line is . She always uses the graphical interface to watch videos, play music, go online, and do school work. To make my point, you mentioned installing packages is hard. I invite you to check out how it is done on the user-friendly distros such as LinuxMint, Ubuntu, and openSuSE’s One-Click Install (here is an example). Installing software on Linux can be as simple as that on any other OS. For example, check out how did i install Google Chrome, or Skype.

Finally, if you want nice GUI, I invite you to check out this video for a brief intro to KDE 4.3. Also check out this video of the features of KDE 4.3. If you want even more eye candy, check out the 3D effects with compiz and beryl: here and here.

Yes, I know that you were expressing your personal views about Mac OS X. Nothing wrong with that. As I said, it is a fine product and well written code.

About windows and it’s power, i wrote my post simply and in general, i didn’t mention that the power of windows is 0%. a super sensitive point about Windows is the security part, I certainly mean “viruses, worms and etc” in windows, i need to use a security software (kaspersky, nod32 or etc) to protect myself from thousands of bad pieces of software which either harm my widows or make it like a turtle playing marathon with a rabbit !! imagine that you cannot ignore this part because it controls everything in windows, what is the benefit of doing my work with 50% possibility of having tens of harmful pieces of software?
I love to apply changes and to access some features from Linux terminal and I REALLY DO THAT NOW BECAUSE MAC OS X (((ALLOW ME))) TO DO SO. and i also want to learn (AppleScript) which give me the power to control my OS!!! you cannot deny this as well.
Let’s talk about the part of Command line, you said that you are a “Power user” but why do you assume that everybody should be a power user? employees and student whose their studies and word is not IT, what should they do? I cannot give my nephew a computer with Linux, she will say “Mo, I don’t know how to use command line” install packages and updates and sooooooo .. this is a fact i have been fighting to convince everybody around me including friends and family about it but when they say we want to to listen music and to do regular process but we don’t want to write CMD lines!!!!!!

Apple sells you a perfect software (the greatest hardware) which will not ask you to do anything, simply because they give everything.. just do your work and let beat rock

about the design part, yeah i meant the GUI of Linux, actually i didn’t see many distributions, i worked only on Fedora since fedora 9 and till now 12 (NOTE: Snow Leopard 10.6 on my Macbook Pro, Windows 7 and Linux Fedora 12 on my desktop computer) the interface of Mac is much better then windows then linux, but the things you can play with on Linux are much more and better (I admit that dude) .

What i wrote on my blog is a personal view and nothing else, my post was about what i see and use. eventually, i prefer to use Mac for everything but there is no problem with the other OS

As they say and i repeat and believe, there is no OS perfect at all. still what you love and what you see is what you get