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

[poly-scott.livejournal.com]

If you don't understand that Safari isn't part of the OS, very little else I could say to you will make sense.

Say it with me:

"An application is not the OS."
"An application is not the OS."
"An application is not the OS."

[superbus.livejournal.com]

Who the fuck do you think you're speaking down to like an eight year old? Safari is about as ingrained into OS/X as IE is into Microsoft's systems; therefore, yes, it IS an integral part of the OS. And as I mentioned a few comments up, even if you don't use Safari, Firefox on OS/X was picked apart much more easily than Firefox on Windows. Furthermore, you completely and totally missed my main point about security through obscurity going tits-up the moment the obscurity part of it is gone; add in the fact that Apple's user is - by nature - not as educated on how to protect themselves on the internet just due to lack of practise, and you have a potentially major problem when/if something DOES drop; even a BSD based OS has holes.

But for deciding to eschew all that to make one snippy remark, fuck you.