Is Mac OS X the best operating system ?

Is Mac OS X the best operating system?

The question I think that is clear and direct. Today, do you think Mac OS X the best operating system?.

It seems clear that Apple is competing with Microsoft in front of their Windows, as well as against users of different Linux distributions. Each has its advantages and disadvantages, of course, but I would say that among the three, Mac OS X has a few features that make it to be the best current operating system.

Here are my three reasons:

For the interface. Apple has succeeded in making a single interface, very different from the various versions of Windows desktops or KDE or Gnome Linux (partly KDE looks like Windows, while Gnome is also something different).

The interface is a key part of the software, which interacts with the user and which he sees. Apple has managed to make a simple interface, and that details such as closing any application with the same combination of keys, has earned a portion of users. In addition, all applications have achieved very designs, unified and much better than the vast majority of applications from other systems.

For performance. Over the course of my years at the helm user of a computer, I could try a multitude of operating systems, all colors and flavors. In recent times, it is necessary to compare with each other at least three operating systems: Ubuntu Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X, either flavored tigre or leopard.

Of the three, I am clearly with Mac OS X, for a very simple reason: the system responds when you say you are, even in situations of high burden on the processor. That is, if I say the system “closes necessarily this application,” Mac OS X closes without the word. In a blink of an eye.

However, Ubuntu system tends to become unstable (not always, but much more often than in OSX) but usually finish answering. In Windows XP I think we all know how the thing is, although I must admit that Microsoft won a lot of stability of XP with SP1.

Quicksilver logoPor ease of use. It could be part of the interface, but just as important as what I consider to be another factor. In OS X, virtually everything is where it should be. It is the only system whose applications were “installed” by dragging an icon into a folder, and delete them, similar action. For this aspect, the implementation Quicksilver plays a crucial role, because without that program, a Mac OS X would not be the same.

In Windows, many things are hidden, and many others are enabled by default when their usefulness is rather grim (example: the firewall). However, the Ubuntu also has a wonderful usability, making virtually any user without having any knowledge, can install, configure and manage it without major problems. With regard to the ease of use, I would say that Ubuntu and Mac OS X are walking hand in hand with Windows behind them.

Desktop Leopard

There are three reasons, at least for me, I find quite convincing and powerful as to consider the Mac OS X the best operating system today. However, Mac OS X still can (and should) improve a lot of their competitors, both Linux and Windows (very carefully to Midori is expected for a few years), and even change some already implemented that not many of us end up convincing.