OS loyalty = Religion

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I have a Mac and a Windows machine in the same office, and Linux installed on my laptop.

I fucking hate computer users who get all religious and judgmental about it. They deserve prolapse and hobnail patterns on the back of their heads.

Well, hobnail patterns are your department after all.

[Nadezhda]

I was raised on DOS and Windows Workgroups when I was a kid, and I fucking despised Apple...  I was another one of those people who loudly yelled "Macs suck" with no supporting evidence or whatever.  And now I have a MBP as my main computer, and an iPad for school.  I haven't tried Linux yet, but I'd like to.  I just... don't want to deal with Windows anymore, and I resent having to fix my dad's computer all the time.  I may complete the trinity and get an iPhone when my htc phone dies, but that's only because I'm comfortable jailbreaking iOS.

I like to drink my espresso in a big cup with whipped cream and caramel sauce on top :3  espresso con panna, I think it's called?  Where I used to live up north, the barista at my usual shop would upgrade me to the con panna for free because I didn't pronounce it "ex"presso.

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

I have a mac, i like it. windows is ok except that vista crap my mother has that she always calls me to help her with something when i cant even see the computer GAH

[Don Coyote]

I drink coffee. From cardboard cups. Fucking poseurs.

Also, fuck Vista, the Mac OS family and people who worship Linux based OSes to the point orgasmicly spewing it out everywhere.

IT'S A FUCKING BOX WITH FUCKING WIRES AND SHIT WITH SOME SHIT IN IT THAT LIGHTS UP AND MAKES PRETTY COLORS!!!!!!!!!!

[Jasper]

I wonder if Discordianism makes neurological 'religion' attachments less intense.  I too am okay with whatever OS is most convenient.  I tend toward linux/windows because I don't have a mac.  If I had a BeBox, I'd be using BeOS on that. 

OSes, like religion, work best if applied contextually.

[East Coast Hustle]

Coyote wins the thread.

Being pretentious about computers is so fucking stupid it makes me froth just a bit.

Personally, I think that Apple is a shit company and they make shit products. Linux is cool but I can't be arsed to learn it enough to make it useful to me. But what kind of a fuck do I give about what you like to use on your computer? None at all.

[Laughin Jude]

I use Windows because

1) It comes on the computers I buy,
2) I've been using it since I was a teenager so I already know how to do everything in it, and
3) I just plain don't do anything on a computer that Windows isn't perfectly good for.

So basically, cost, familiarity and lack of reason to use anything else.

I don't even know the last time I saw the BSOD on my own computer. I'm running XP and Windows 7 on different machines and they both seem pretty damn stable. But then I don't play PC games or make media files, either.

Really, when it comes to Apple, the whole Mac thing isn't even my main concern with them. It's this: what is the point of an iPod or an iPad? I have a modern cell phone with an earphone jack and a laptop with a built in wireless card. What possible function could an iPod or iPad fill that isn't already being served by one of those two devices, and for less money? Is there any reason at all to own either outside of trying to be trendy? I don't get it.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I have a friend who hates computers and modern technology in general (Does not own a cell phone, still has a rotary phone, and writes on a manual typewriter) but thinks iPads are awesome. I don't get it, but I think it has to do with the way his brain processes information. So I figure that a lot of that "personal preference" shit is probably related to how we're all different etc etc.

Which makes JUDGING THE KINDS OF PRODUCTS OTHER PEOPLE PREFER extra dopetastic, because it presumes that the world would be better if everyone was the same, uniform, cardboard-cutout sheep.

[Nadezhda]

iPads are awesome.  I bought mine because I had fibromyalgia which made my computer too heavy to carry to school.  The iPad is all light and convenient, and also, Lego Harry Potter is super fun :3

[P3nT4gR4m]

Windows = Fine if you stay away from ME and Vista

Mac = Fine if you like paying twice as much as you need to for your processing power

Linux = Fine if you want to spend 3 weeks fucking about with kernel recompiles, trying to get software to work on it, before giving up and installing some open source equivalent that sucks shit through a straw compared to the real thing.

The verdict - there is no perfect OS or platform. Anyone who claims otherwise will suffer my derision. I'm an equal opportunities bastard and will mock a fanboy of any system.

One other thing - touchscreens - stupidest interface idea ever invented. "Oooooh I know, lets make a UI that involves repeatedly rubbing your greasy fingers all over a shiny glass screen - what could possibly go wrong?" I'd rather use a stylus, kthnx.

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One other thing - touchscreens - stupidest interface idea ever invented. "Oooooh I know, lets make a UI that involves repeatedly rubbing your greasy fingers all over a shiny glass screen - what could possibly go wrong?" I'd rather use a stylus, kthnx.

Then Pent lost his stylus and quietly wept into his gadget.

[Cain]

I use Windows because

1) It comes on the computers I buy,
2) I've been using it since I was a teenager so I already know how to do everything in it, and
3) I just plain don't do anything on a computer that Windows isn't perfectly good for.

So basically, cost, familiarity and lack of reason to use anything else.

I don't even know the last time I saw the BSOD on my own computer. I'm running XP and Windows 7 on different machines and they both seem pretty damn stable. But then I don't play PC games or make media files, either.

Really, when it comes to Apple, the whole Mac thing isn't even my main concern with them. It's this: what is the point of an iPod or an iPad? I have a modern cell phone with an earphone jack and a laptop with a built in wireless card. What possible function could an iPod or iPad fill that isn't already being served by one of those two devices, and for less money? Is there any reason at all to own either outside of trying to be trendy? I don't get it.

100% THIS.

Well, I have an mp3player rather than using my phone, because even my fairly modern phone is not a smart phone and my player, which I bought 6 years earlier, still has more in the way of storage and battery power.  But I'm not up on smartphones, so I may be missing out there.  But iPads I totally agree with.

And I do play games on Windows 7 (in a rare feat of indulgence, I bought a brand new laptop entirely for playing games on, so it came with 7 pre-loaded) and apart from, in some older games, the odd tendency for the taskbar to show on the bottom of the screen during loading, it is absolutely fine.  My processor and RAM are good, in line with what you would expect from a laptop made in the past 12 months, but nothing super-fancy, and everything plays on it without a hitch.  The one time I had a problem, I am certain it was a game fault and not an OS one.

I'd be happy using Ubuntu on my old laptop, which I use entirely for word processing, research and going online, but I'm not sure it would be worth the effort, even with Vista's notorious issues.  So many files are on it, the backing up alone would take a full day's effort.

As for Macs....the school I worked with in Switzerland ran them on their network.  The only real annoyance was getting used to the differences between them and Windows.  I wouldn't buy one, but only because I think they are overpriced for what I need.  But if I was professionally or semi-professionally producing media content much of the time, I'm sure I'd reconsider.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I like how many people read the OP and then immediately leapt to judging the kinds of computers/gadgets other people like. 

Monkey-mind runs deep and strong.

[Cain]

Well, I've always had a thing about iPads.  Its not that they're Apple, its just I don't understand what their point is.  I don't understand why Microsoft are attempting to break open the tablet market either.  They must be popular...I just don't see the rationale.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Is there a reason you need to?