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[hotclaws.livejournal.com]

Come to the dark side,we have cookies.

[faceless-wonder.livejournal.com]

amen.

fucking Windows...i had a Windows install to do at work a few days ago, and it made me go through Windows Update six or seven times before it installed all the "important updates".

it made me so happy to go home the next morning, back to my warm and cozy Xubuntu box.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Swear to God every time I blink I have to reboot one of my Windows boxes because of some damned update. But re the Mac, hell guys, their last .X OS release was only $29. Then again, the *next* release is going to bring the App Store... to the desktop! Oh WHEE. ::Mac admin shoots self in face::

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

Actually, no. A massive OSX revision costs, if you want it. An update equivalent to WinUpdate works much the same as WinUpdate, just a goddamn lot less often.

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to seeing how (if) we'll try to keep a handle on the app store on our Macs....

[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

It's funny how vastly different our experiences are. For my part, I use Windows out of pure momentum, I started with 3.1 and haven't had occasion to change since. It has it's annoyances, but on the whole I find it very comfortable... Mac is very pretty and Linux... well, "free" has an allure all its own, obviously. Still on the whole I've never had a complaint big enough to warrant leaving Windows and "never looking back".

That said, I'd be a dirty liar if I said I never had frustrations with it... though I expect I'd have frustrations with any of 'em.

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

Right. And they're not $99. ;]

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

A lot of the difference is that you can feel fairly certain that an update for Linux is genuinely an improvement in some way. Not so effing much, for the other two.

[tauren-wardrums.livejournal.com]

Ditto to that, friend. I've got three computers and two of them are dominated by Windows platforms.

Nothing against Unix-based operating systems at all, but even my best Windows day has at least three or so grievances.

[firon.livejournal.com]

This.

I have minimally tried to get into Linux (installed a few distros) and invariably had some problem with some driver, or installing some package or whatever. It's never been a deal breaker, but the fact that I'd have to dig around in config files, re-compile stuff and read all sorts of man pages just to get something fairly simple to work really put me off. The main thing I like is that Windows, for all its faults, is intuitive (for the most part at least), very customizable, and generally very straightforward. DOS commands make sense and are pretty easy for me to remember (it helps that I've been working with DOS since my old 286).

Comparitively, Linux is cool, but generally very complicated and much less intuitive and Mac is minimally customizable and often not compatible with stuff I already use/have. My GF got a mac and I've played with it enough to get very frustrated with how it worked, plus there's no drivers for my printer (not Apple's fault, but still a royal pain in the ass).

[spaz-own-joo.livejournal.com]

When was the last time you attempted a Lunix distro? Things are way different, even from how they were 5 years ago. 'Buntu 10.04 honestly installed for me with less fucking-around than Vista on the same hardware.

[firon.livejournal.com]

I think the last time was about a year ago when I installed PC Linux on an old T40 laptop. To be honest, that install actually went very smoothly and I found the experience to be pretty good. I didn't use it that much though, and my GF said the machine crashed a lot, but that could be due to the old hardware. I'm certainly not ruling out getting into the Linux game, just saying that my experiences so far haven't been compelling, but then I haven't really given it enough time to get hooked I guess.

In any case, my real point was that while I do gripe about MS and the updates can be annoying at times, I really do enjoy Windows 7.

[meitemark.livejournal.com]

Apple cookies: Really shiny white, but just one taste. Very expensive.
Windows cookies: all themes, tastes and colours possible, you just have to crack them a little. May spoil fast if you don't know what you are doing, but almost everyone can help you fix it.
Linux cookies: anything is possible, but you can't go to the store and just buy the ingredients, you have to make them yourself.

[ravenofdreams.livejournal.com]

I'm already just trying to figure out how to remove it.