Its not windows' fault that your a computer illiterate. Maybe you were productive because you didn't have all these wicked cool fun distractions (aka games).
@dukeinlondonIf you use Windows and only Windows, you are clearly not a "real PC enthusiast"@PirateChaOSIf you honestly believe you can do anything in Windows that you can in Linux you are f**king clueless. Yes, Cygwin helps a little, but still doesn't come close to the full Linux experience. Windows sucks and you know it. And I don't give two s**ts about video games, DirectX doesn't magically make Windows a better operating system. I'm talking about real computing here.@SartoriI wouldn't have considered myself superior to you, just because you use an inferior OS. But you claim that your decision to use Windows and only Windows was "educated" and "informed" entering you squarely into the moron category. Considering that, as a "real computer enthusiast" (I use Linux, OS X, and Windows on a daily basis, and the occasional Solaris) I am not a moron, your moron status makes me clearly superior to you.Have a good day, and I hope you enjoy being a wanker.
Strange, Linux (Ubuntu) isn't locked to hardware and it's way more stable than XP or 2000. I can easily get 250 days up time with Ubuntu running a heavier load than XP. I have never, NEVER gone more than 8 days without a reboot in XP and most people I know struggle to get over 6 days. You can go a bit longer if you don't run IE6/7. The network manager at college, who was brilliant at his job, so brilliant he was recruited to an MS subsidiary, could never get more than 30 days out of W2K. In my experience, with regards to stability, Linux (Ubuntu) makes XP look like a joke. I have never used a OS X but if it's even half as stable as Ubuntu then it will be worth the extra money. I also want to try OS X just for the sake of it. Try this experiment if you have the spare PC's. Put Ubuntu 6.06 on one PC and XP on another. Both clean installs. Run 40-50 programs on each and wait for the first box to hang or crash. Want any prizes for guessing which one it will be? I used Ubuntu in this manner and daily for 100 days before the desktop hung. Logout login restart apps and on we go. 250 days uptime in Ubuntu (100 days out of the box and never used Linux before) before I called the experiment to a halt. Stable Ubuntu is. Stable XP is not. Also, I tried another distro with an animated desktop on a 1.6Ghz Thinkpad with 512 RAM and 64MB shared VRAM. It ran FASTER (with all the effects) than my P4 3Ghz 1G Desktop with windows on. MS is going wrong somewhere.I know this not exactly relevant but I am excited about PC's again after 8 years of XP boredom. Things, I now realise, can be better.
well yes it is true, Macs are more expensive and yes you can buy faster PCs than Macs todayBut lets face one fact you can Windows or Linux on a Mac today if you like, so the Mac offers the all round solution you can pritty much run any software in the World on a Macintosh.And let me also say, its definetly worth having a Mac around because there are some wonderful things you can do on MacAnd for me a Mac is much nicer to use, it just feels easy fast, and like a breeze to use a Mac, almost natural.I am sure totally diffrent for other people.But Linux just totally boring to me, its where I do my work, and develop software.And Windows just drives me nuts, especially the new interface of Vista (I guess you can get used to it.)And also all the problems I run into using XP or Vista for that matter as not yet all XP software is compatible with Vista.So I have been using a Mac now for just 8 Month but I love, and for my free time and leisure use I will always use a Mac.For my development work on Eclipse and Java I am looking at getting me a Linux Laptop and I wil always use Windows when I need to but I just love using the Mac.
Hmm. I fell in love with Macs about 6 years ago. I have had atrocious experiences with PCs. As a programmer and a system level programmer especially I cannot abide the limited toolkit of Windoze machines. Now, I did leave that fold long before .Net which looks to be a much more interesting base to work from. But back in the day I would end up scraping Windoze off my personal boxes and installing Linux after at most two experiences per box of such corruption I ended up reinstalling. I was a Linux bigot for quite some time. But I missed a lot of programs and consistent GUI. Then I discovered OS X. It seemed like the very best of both worlds. I fell in love with my first mac laptop. Eventually I bought a G5. I noticed though that the G5 would crank up the fans for no real reason at all. It was fast and having everything "just work" was nice EXCEPT too many spinning beachballs, too much noise and more trouble to install OS software from the Linux world. Now I have a Mac Pro. I bought it because of:a) its power;b) it is *much* quieter than a G5;c) parallels so I can have OS X and Linux and even some Windows on the same box;d) I can dual boot to Linux and have a really powerful Linux desktop.Well, it was a good idea. But it doesn't work like that. I cannot for the life of me get any Linux to install on the Mac Pro. Ubuntu claims it can't read the CD after it starts booting and freezes. FC6 freezes on the welcome screen after saying it installed a couple of drivers. I can install from both Linuxes on all other Mac machines including the G5. So I am very nonplussed by this. I am paranoid enough to wonder if the machine is rigged to make installing Linux overly difficult. I have noticed that I am happiest as a programmer and hacker on Linux. It is more than just the variety of programs and sources to play with. The Mac feels somehow sterile and so glitzed out that it somehow detracts from getting work done. Yeah everything is prettier and crisper in a uniform way on the Mac. But I have noticed that a lot of things seem to eat more resources and to bog down more quickly on my Mac Pro than on an 2.6 ghz P4 Linux box. So I really am getting much less enamored of the Mac Pro. It is too expensive to be limited to only booting a single OS that I care to boot. If I can't solve the Linux booting problem I may return it. I very much resent and usually do not put up with computers I own being unable boot into Linux. I am also not impressed with Cocoa. Objective C is very dated. Reference counting and arcane memory management rules? A clunky class library and inefficient use of objects? What do you get if you master all their Frameworks, classes, mach strangeness, etc? You get software that can only run on their hardware. That bothers me. With the Mono project event .Net is not so restrictive. I do really like their slick laptops in many ways. It is a great consumer computer and more. But I get tired of the mono-culture that is Apple and Mac OS. I still have to use Linux at least a day or two a week for balance and to clear my head of built up OS X frustrations.
Long story short: I'm a geek, just as 99% of modern internet users are and I'm a big fan of both Windows and Mac. Why Windows? Because I've used it all my life. Why Mac? Because I absolutely love its UI and how sleek their hardware looks (although Vista has met the same quality ... sort of). This article was pretty entertaining, and it did bring Mac users to its knees (its about time someone stopped picking on poor, clunky Windows!). Definitely got my digg.
mobilitatisFeb 6, 2007
get the facts here<a class="user" href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=windows+games%2C+mac+os+games&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all">http://www.google.com/trends?q=windows+games%2C+mac+os+games&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all</a>
blackcowFeb 6, 2007
Its not windows' fault that your a computer illiterate. Maybe you were productive because you didn't have all these wicked cool fun distractions (aka games).
ucg1Feb 7, 2007
@dukeinlondonIf you use Windows and only Windows, you are clearly not a "real PC enthusiast"@PirateChaOSIf you honestly believe you can do anything in Windows that you can in Linux you are f**king clueless. Yes, Cygwin helps a little, but still doesn't come close to the full Linux experience. Windows sucks and you know it. And I don't give two s**ts about video games, DirectX doesn't magically make Windows a better operating system. I'm talking about real computing here.@SartoriI wouldn't have considered myself superior to you, just because you use an inferior OS. But you claim that your decision to use Windows and only Windows was "educated" and "informed" entering you squarely into the moron category. Considering that, as a "real computer enthusiast" (I use Linux, OS X, and Windows on a daily basis, and the occasional Solaris) I am not a moron, your moron status makes me clearly superior to you.Have a good day, and I hope you enjoy being a wanker.
awidgetihavenotFeb 8, 2007
Strange, Linux (Ubuntu) isn't locked to hardware and it's way more stable than XP or 2000. I can easily get 250 days up time with Ubuntu running a heavier load than XP. I have never, NEVER gone more than 8 days without a reboot in XP and most people I know struggle to get over 6 days. You can go a bit longer if you don't run IE6/7. The network manager at college, who was brilliant at his job, so brilliant he was recruited to an MS subsidiary, could never get more than 30 days out of W2K. In my experience, with regards to stability, Linux (Ubuntu) makes XP look like a joke. I have never used a OS X but if it's even half as stable as Ubuntu then it will be worth the extra money. I also want to try OS X just for the sake of it. Try this experiment if you have the spare PC's. Put Ubuntu 6.06 on one PC and XP on another. Both clean installs. Run 40-50 programs on each and wait for the first box to hang or crash. Want any prizes for guessing which one it will be? I used Ubuntu in this manner and daily for 100 days before the desktop hung. Logout login restart apps and on we go. 250 days uptime in Ubuntu (100 days out of the box and never used Linux before) before I called the experiment to a halt. Stable Ubuntu is. Stable XP is not. Also, I tried another distro with an animated desktop on a 1.6Ghz Thinkpad with 512 RAM and 64MB shared VRAM. It ran FASTER (with all the effects) than my P4 3Ghz 1G Desktop with windows on. MS is going wrong somewhere.I know this not exactly relevant but I am excited about PC's again after 8 years of XP boredom. Things, I now realise, can be better.
mobilitatisFeb 9, 2007
Of Course, ;)
thorstenFeb 26, 2007
well yes it is true, Macs are more expensive and yes you can buy faster PCs than Macs todayBut lets face one fact you can Windows or Linux on a Mac today if you like, so the Mac offers the all round solution you can pritty much run any software in the World on a Macintosh.And let me also say, its definetly worth having a Mac around because there are some wonderful things you can do on MacAnd for me a Mac is much nicer to use, it just feels easy fast, and like a breeze to use a Mac, almost natural.I am sure totally diffrent for other people.But Linux just totally boring to me, its where I do my work, and develop software.And Windows just drives me nuts, especially the new interface of Vista (I guess you can get used to it.)And also all the problems I run into using XP or Vista for that matter as not yet all XP software is compatible with Vista.So I have been using a Mac now for just 8 Month but I love, and for my free time and leisure use I will always use a Mac.For my development work on Eclipse and Java I am looking at getting me a Linux Laptop and I wil always use Windows when I need to but I just love using the Mac.
drsnapdragonMar 3, 2007
Hmm. I fell in love with Macs about 6 years ago. I have had atrocious experiences with PCs. As a programmer and a system level programmer especially I cannot abide the limited toolkit of Windoze machines. Now, I did leave that fold long before .Net which looks to be a much more interesting base to work from. But back in the day I would end up scraping Windoze off my personal boxes and installing Linux after at most two experiences per box of such corruption I ended up reinstalling. I was a Linux bigot for quite some time. But I missed a lot of programs and consistent GUI. Then I discovered OS X. It seemed like the very best of both worlds. I fell in love with my first mac laptop. Eventually I bought a G5. I noticed though that the G5 would crank up the fans for no real reason at all. It was fast and having everything "just work" was nice EXCEPT too many spinning beachballs, too much noise and more trouble to install OS software from the Linux world. Now I have a Mac Pro. I bought it because of:a) its power;b) it is *much* quieter than a G5;c) parallels so I can have OS X and Linux and even some Windows on the same box;d) I can dual boot to Linux and have a really powerful Linux desktop.Well, it was a good idea. But it doesn't work like that. I cannot for the life of me get any Linux to install on the Mac Pro. Ubuntu claims it can't read the CD after it starts booting and freezes. FC6 freezes on the welcome screen after saying it installed a couple of drivers. I can install from both Linuxes on all other Mac machines including the G5. So I am very nonplussed by this. I am paranoid enough to wonder if the machine is rigged to make installing Linux overly difficult. I have noticed that I am happiest as a programmer and hacker on Linux. It is more than just the variety of programs and sources to play with. The Mac feels somehow sterile and so glitzed out that it somehow detracts from getting work done. Yeah everything is prettier and crisper in a uniform way on the Mac. But I have noticed that a lot of things seem to eat more resources and to bog down more quickly on my Mac Pro than on an 2.6 ghz P4 Linux box. So I really am getting much less enamored of the Mac Pro. It is too expensive to be limited to only booting a single OS that I care to boot. If I can't solve the Linux booting problem I may return it. I very much resent and usually do not put up with computers I own being unable boot into Linux. I am also not impressed with Cocoa. Objective C is very dated. Reference counting and arcane memory management rules? A clunky class library and inefficient use of objects? What do you get if you master all their Frameworks, classes, mach strangeness, etc? You get software that can only run on their hardware. That bothers me. With the Mono project event .Net is not so restrictive. I do really like their slick laptops in many ways. It is a great consumer computer and more. But I get tired of the mono-culture that is Apple and Mac OS. I still have to use Linux at least a day or two a week for balance and to clear my head of built up OS X frustrations.
darlynMar 3, 2007
Long story short: I'm a geek, just as 99% of modern internet users are and I'm a big fan of both Windows and Mac. Why Windows? Because I've used it all my life. Why Mac? Because I absolutely love its UI and how sleek their hardware looks (although Vista has met the same quality ... sort of). This article was pretty entertaining, and it did bring Mac users to its knees (its about time someone stopped picking on poor, clunky Windows!). Definitely got my digg.
odediaApr 30, 2007
Ok, I'm a mac user, but this one really made me laugh :)
jumpfreaksterJun 10, 2007
That's the difference between mac and pc people. Mac fans can laugh about themselves...<a class="user" href="http://www.advocaatleiden.nl">http://www.advocaatleiden.nl</a>
wgrovesAug 12, 2007
brooker is a genius
devfeedAug 15, 2007
Really good. I've heard about this month ago, but I can't remember where exactly. <a class="user" href="http://gardentag.blogspot.com">http://gardentag.blogspot.com</a>
massandroOct 31, 2007
yeah, british humour.. :-)
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