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ntiozymandias:
I've had Windows users attack me that way.

I've also had Linux users do this, despite the fact that I was much more proficient at wielding the Mac OS than they were at understanding Linux.

Hmmm........

Kat:
I find that most people who rag on Linux and Mac are the same people who need help dragging the taskbar back to the bottom of the screen.

lazygamer:
I just have one problem with macs. Mac has a history of a shitty operatating system right? Just because there modern operating system works great now, why should they be forgiven?

Alright I woulden't know from first hand experience, well I have used macs before. Never had a problem with them, in fact I was weened on the apple IIe playing those ghey educational games from MECC. Then came the ub3r l33t(compared to those IIe's) macintoshes.

preacher:
When I first tried using linux, I was one of those assholes who was just using it because they wanted to be "1337". I wanted to be a hax0r and after a week I got bored with it and quit. Several years later after I graduated from college with a major in Computer Information Systems, I got kind of big into web design and at this point I became frustrated with hosting services and decided that I needed my own webserver. To be truthful I looked into Microsoft first, but quickly realized that my budget was nowhere near big enough to run a MS server. I also heard that they were very insecure. So I looked into linux again and installed a dual boot system to get started. Even though I had been dabbling in the OS a little bit before, I found I knew next to nothing about it. So I took a Linux/Apache webserver class at the local community college. I learned a lot, and I eliminated the windows partition to begin using linux full time. While taking the class I also took a MCP class(Windows 2000 Server Security) and in that class I met a lot of criticism about my preference for linux. The one thing I learned about Windows 2000 as compared to linux is that once you get deep into Active Directory and security, it is just as complicated if not more so than linux. I was told constantly that linux was too difficult to admin to be practical, yet in my opinion it is no more difficult than Windows. Dont let the fact that you modify text files in linux lead you to believe that it is difficult or obsolete. I had a classmate who thought the linux gui looked worse than windows 3.1, but I soon realized he had seen the old kde and thought it pretty weak. After showing him kde 2.2.x, he admitted it looked pretty good. The one issue I get battered with most is hardware support.Windows users love plug and play, and I like it too, unfortunately since very little hardware is made to work with linux, this might always be a problem. After defending linux on every issue, they declare that Im just being stupid since I wont admit that windows was superior. All I can say is that if you believe people who want to use something different are stupid, I must be head moron.


A good comparison would be the manual transmission(linux), versus the automatic transmission(windows). The manual transmission is more difficult to drive, it takes longer to learn, and requires more work to be good at driving it, but it gets better gas mileage, accelerates faster, and breaks down far less than the automatic transmission.

[ October 09, 2002: Message edited by: ThePreacher ]

psyjax:

quote:Originally posted by lazygamer:
I just have one problem with macs. Mac has a history of a shitty operatating system right? Just because there modern operating system works great now, why should they be forgiven?
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Huh?

I disagree whole-heartedly! Their OS kicks the shit out of windows anyday!

Classic (OS9 or earlyer) was faster, snappier, and a shit load more stable and user friendly than Windoze.

Granted, many folks complaine about Mac's crashing too much, and I'd be lieing if I sayd crashing on Mac's was not a pain in the Ass, but in my years using Classic I have managed to keep my computer running as stable (if not more) as a WinTel box.

Any el337 Mac user worth his salt can trim down an Extension parade, and configure INITs and Memory alocations. And if you are good at it, you can run a very stable system. Especialy back in the glory days of OS 7    :D   (Hey, it's easyer than digging in the Registry   )

In this Modern age of OS's OSX is the ONLY OS that truely dosn't crash. IMHO Apple is the God of OS's hands down, why do you think M$ is allways copying them?

[ October 09, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]

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