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Mac OS X Versus Windows Vista, The Rematch
An anonymous reader writes "InformationWeek follows up its widely read review where Mac OS X beat out Windows Vista in a head-to-head comparison, with a reader debate on which is really the superior operating system. From the article: 'Mac users love venting about Windows... Any company that calls their techs "geniuses" thrive in forums like this. They think they are "cool" and "hip," they don't care about the fact that they have to reset the permissions and turn on Appletalk every five minutes. Windows Vista all the way. If Windows sucks soooo much, how come more people are familiar with it than Mac OS X? Last time I checked, Windows wasn't just a business operating system. Tons upon tons of people use it and like it.'"
Who allowed such a poorly written article to be posted?
Um.... If Windows is your Uncle and you use Windows to play games... I'm not sure what kind of games you and your uncle play and I think I really don't want to know.
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
You know, now that you mention it, I have noticed lost of Mac users with pants crusted with semen from constantly jacking off, wearing "Tea shades"... Hmmm...
If you're finding it difficult to do something in MacOSX, it's quite likely that you are trying do do something in an un-needed complicated way.
OK, then how do I uncomplicatedly maximize an open window is OS X, the way I maximize them in Windows?
The road to hell is paved with Cat 5 cable.
Mac are expensive. People don't want feel like a loser, so they will defend Mac whenever they have invested in it.
Linux: it's free, but you have to invest a lot of time to get used to it. It seems the most logical that in the end every one will go for Linux. It just needs some time for more and more people to get the courage to start with Linux. Because why should anyone pay for an OS if there is a free alternative?
Finally Windows. Well, you won't see many people defending Windows. It's the basic. It takes no decision to use Windows. There is no point in defending it, because there is nothing to lose in terms of defending a decision. Oh, maybe there is. I love to keep old machines usable. There are just a handful of interesting programs that do not support Win98. In fact I recently upgraded my 6-7 years old Win98 machine to self-built new machine with Windows XP x64. Only to find out that many things don't have 64-bits drivers. Camera's, minidisk. Solution: run Win98 in VMWare player. It all works now. O yeah, and I will be running a Linux version too in VMWare player. To get used to it. Because I don't like that MS basically does not trust me, and makes me confirm every time that I don't have an illegal copy running. So next machine (in 5 or 8 or 10 years) will be just Linux.
But I would never use a Mac. It is soooo snobbish. There is no way I want to be part of that snobbish Mac-defenders group. I wished they would shut up and consider Mac for what it is: an overpriced BSD clone, that is just used to brag about.
I too have never seen a Kernel Panic in OS X. But guess what I also have never seen a "STOP error" in Windows XP SP 2 either. But I don't go around doing the crazy things people sometimes do. *shrugs shoulders* But I have to argue with your point about the previous Windows. You go all the way back to Windows 3.11. Damn that's some cold shiz. You compare that to OS X? Lets get a little more relevant kay? I remember OS's before OS X. There was OS 9, OS 8, System 7... all of them no where near as good as OS X let alone the various Windows at the time. Bomb's, kernel panics, annoying error messages. I'm just saying lets get real here.
About the user interface... can we just agree to disagree? The UI is a very personal preference. No one (not you, certainly not me) can really effectively tell somebody that a certain UI is going to be better for everyone on the planet.
Unfortunately I have to run OLD Dos programs everyday. I run WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS and it runs perfect. This is on a Pentium 3 700Mhz. Really this is more like running System 7 on OS X. And it still prints to my printer like a champ. Amazing.
When you talk about vulnerabilities, you say it's because of it's *Nix roots that it's secure. That's of course bullshit. It's HOW you implement your security that makes a system secure. OS X is pretty secure, but it's only because they decided to implement their security in a respectable way. Not because it's based on any mythically secure system. And since we're really talking about Vista, we all have to realize that Windows now doesn't allow normal users to be admins. They have to deal with the same limited user accounts that OS X users have had the priviledge of using for quite some time. But now is now, not a year ago so lets just move on with our lives.
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and so on. Please don't laugh. These are serious. Underestimating the value of bug checking will leave you in a sore spot in the long run.