This has been driving me NUTS lately.

[demented-pants.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one noticing a trend lately wherein people everywhere seem to be going, "Oh, windows is so insecure and awful, I'll switch to Macs, they're better," without having a damn clue what they're talking about? When pressed, sure, they might say, "Macs don't get viruses," which is (of course) a fallacy, or, "Windows crashes all the time..."

Regardless, they switch to macs and then they're totally illiterate and I have to help them figure out wtf they're doing. And then when everything doesn't JUST WORK ZOMG like they're expecting it to, it's somehow *still* Windows' fault, somehow.

Ugh. I'm not advocating for one above the other. I use Mac, Windows, and Linux all three, though I have a definite preference for Windows, personally. Use what works for you.

But for fuck's sake can we all have a little bit less of that annoying superiority?

Comments

[slayne-souls.livejournal.com]

Macs dont get viruses?
Well, sure they can if your stupid enough to find them, seeing OSX is a FreeBSD hybrid the chances of reciving a virus are slim, As I am partial To linux which there are only about 50 or so known Viruses,again next to impossible to get, I imagine its similar with Macs.
So for the most part Macs don't get Viruses. Windows itself however is a virus:

* Viruses replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that.

* Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so - okay, Windows does that.

* Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, Windows does that too.

* Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. Sigh... Windows does that, too.

* Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that's with Windows, too.

Unfortunately I don't have a mac myself if i did I wouldnt be using windows at all as my windows Partition is only used for media editing.
I am not a fan of Cinelerra, Kino or Lives.

[simoncion.livejournal.com]

* Viruses replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that.

Please don't do this. It's a really dumb gag.