Before you read this, please be aware: This is a post where I will express my very personal opinion. If anyone admires or defends the ideas of Miguel de Icaza and might be offended by what follows, I advise you to look away.
To begin with, I don't know why I'm writing this post, especially since I already expressed my thoughts on this character quite clearly in this other one . Miguel de Icaza needs no introduction; perhaps his greatest recognition was being one of the founders of the GNOME Project , a project that he seems to have erased from his memory along with everything it philosophically represented.
We already knew that the guy had opted for OS X , but you have to have a lot of nerve to criticize something that he himself has been a part of.
As he tells us on his blog , he took a Mac for a day to go on vacation to Brazil and everything worked; he could suspend and restore the laptop without problems, the audio always worked as did the WiFi , he didn't have to recompile the Kernel to adjust "this or that", he had no problems with the video drivers and there were no signs of the suspicious slowness that he did experience in his Thinkpad.
And finally, it comes to us with the excuse that there is fragmentation in Linux as a platform, multiple incompatible distributions, and incompatibility between the versions of the same distro.
I'm not going to go into the details of why things work or don't work in OS X, I already talked about that in my other post, but let me tell you, Don Icaza, that in the Netbook I had a few weeks ago, and in the Dell Vostro I have now, if I have had problems of the type you mention (which I haven't), the only one to blame for it has been me.
To Miguel de Icaza I say: Anyone using a rolling release distribution, or one that updates constantly, can encounter problems, but generally speaking, GNU/Linux doesn't get any more stable than it seems. I say this from my experience, with the hardware I've tested over these 7 years of use.
Furthermore, sir, you better than anyone should know that, while your OS X is focused on only one type of hardware, GNU/Linux tries to cover a much wider range, and many times in order for the devices to work, reverse engineering is necessary, because as we all know, we are not part of that monopoly that companies like Apple and Microsoft are fighting over.
But without going on too long: Is OS X working well for you? Congratulations, enjoy your Macbook or whatever it is you have, because in my eyes (and even though you don't give a damn) you're nothing more than a hypocritical traitor. You're one of those who started from the bottom, fighting for a cause, and ended up on the opposite side. Enjoy your dark side; the Force is with me. 😊
Sincerely, Miguel de Icaza you are disgusted.