(March 12, 2017 at 12:02 am)Sterben Wrote: 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.There was a time when I felt the same way. These days I use my macbook, a windows 7 box at work, a windows 10 machine in my music room and a linux box in my shop. The mac and the windows machines are both plenty flexible for my needs. I never run into anything I need either to do that it won't do.
The linux box? Eh. I like how linux is free and robust and all. But I could never see myself using it as my daily machine. I'm not a coder so I've got zero patience for trying to remember 'sudo appget http://www.frankbuckwaldsbutthole.com/butthole/sources/"just a god damn clock app"-t -n -u' every time I want to load some kind of utility or make the machine do something different. My Linux machine runs on an ancient windows box in my shop and I use it for a web browser and a music player and thats it.
Quote: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.Infections and your vulnerability to them has everything to do with the user and almost nothing to do with the OS. I run all my machines naked. No anti-virus or maleware protection on any of them and I use facebook regularly. Never had an issue.
The IT guy at work even lets me run my Win7 laptop naked. He's got some kind of fakakta anti-whatnot software on everything else in the office (and everyone complains because it often grinds their machines to a crawl) but he allows me to keep mine naked. Not an issue. Yet we regularly get group texts from our CEO saying don't open any emails from him because his account got hacked again. Its not about the OS or the security software. Its about the user. Period.
