Operating systems Wars!

[Sterben]

They perform better over all and they don't cost a lot of money (Unlike Macs), which are way over priced and under powered. The lack of options is something that is concerning. I'll give Apple credit, they do make a nice looking product, but the OS is the major problem with them.

I used to feel the exact same way. Then I needed to learn the mac OS for work so I bought a mac. Actually I take that back. I felt the same way for a while after I bought the mac and started using it. It took me a month or two to get comfortable with the OS but once I learned it was I fine with is as an OS and I realized part of the reason macs always seemed to be under spec'd was because the OS runs great and does just as much just as fast on less horsepower than would be required to achieve similar performance from a windows box. However like you, I still felt the machines were way overpriced for what you got. 


It took about six years for me to change my opinion on that. Because six years later my wife handed me her 14 month old laptop and said its running like crap and won't charge. I dug in and found the power port was eff'd and needed to be replaced which is a job I could do myself if I wanted. But the time it would take to fix hers was time I would not be able to do work on paying client machines. By the time you factor in the lost client billable hours, it was more cost effective just buy her another new machine. I say another new machine because this was a recurring theme. Buy her a machine, 14 to 18 months later, its time for a new machine. 

Meanwhile I was still  using the macbook I'd bought 6 years earlier and it still ran just as fast then as it did when I'd bought it and I'd had to invest nearly zero hours in maintaining it over that time.

When I added up what we'd spent on my macbook vs what we'd spent on keeping my wife in working laptops over the previous six years, suddenly my macbook didn't seem so expensive anymore. In fact it actually MUCH cheaper.

The next day we went to best buy and bought her a macbook air. That was six years ago. She's still using it. We would have spent double the money in that time had we tried to keep her in working PC laptops.

      I watched a lot of videos on the many mac OS's over the years. I could not see the purpose of the lack flexibility in the OS in it self. All of my PC's I've never had a issue with them. Maybe it's because I know how to maintain them so well; monthly defrags, good anti-virus software, opening up files I don't know in VM's before I open them in my real OS ect. I hate the UI on macs, the lack of third party support and them charging for updates which changes nothing. I'm also tired of Mac users  saying "We don't get viruses, and were harder to hack". I've always called a Mac user out of those claims. If you access social media sites on a Mac, Windows, Android, or Linux based O/S you are prone to infections.

       My moms email was getting hacked a lot, I looked at her Windows computer and ran the scans. Nothing was found, I dumped her DNS and she was still getting hacked. It turned out that her Ipad was infected with malware, boy was that a pain in the ass to remove! Ever since then her email is fine now. I double checked all my devices just in case the malware was spreading through her email. I'm standing firmly that her Ipad was infected from facebook. Even before she signed up for it, I warned her not to use social media. But, no one listens to the person who knows what they are doing, till you get trouble.  Why is that always the the case?

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And patronizing and unprofessional. I can'd do shit in Windows without something popping up or it deciding to spontaneously restart while I'm in the middle of something. I would never use it on stage for instance. With Linux, when it's running, it's running, and does what it is supposed to do, one month nonstop if necessary. Not to mention that I write almost everything in LaTeX, and that's just no fun under Windows.

       Do you run Linux on a VM, or are you dual booting?