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To: Swordmaker
Agree with you 100% on Windows. It's the McOS of operating systems, bogged down with needless layers wasting resources to accommodate user easy (ergo Plug-n-Play). You lose something like 30% of your total processing potential off-the-bat. It just feels slow and bloated compared to Linux.

The Mac is like a fine steak dinner: Hats off, but not for me... ever... for historical reasons. People that like to "click" instead of issuing keystrokes tend to prefer Macs. Personally, I hate the mouse and try to minimize use thereof.

Linux - the "clean room Unix" developed originally by St. Linus - is more like a stack of ingredients prearranged according to taste (Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, etc.) I like Linux the best, with all its quirks, and never feel limited by it. It's for the huddled, humble masses, the non-elites, those who just want to "get 'er done" instead of bragging about pedigree... The sky is the limit with Linux...

Anyone with VirtualBox can run multiple OSes regardless of the host OS.

And of course we're arguing about toys here; the real computers that provide the backbone for our banking, healthcare, and airline reservations are something entirely different.

103 posted on 09/26/2014 12:16:33 AM PDT by Lexinom
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To: Lexinom
And of course we're arguing about toys here; the real computers that provide the backbone for our banking, healthcare, and airline reservations are something entirely different.

True... but these "toys" interface with them. And I prefer not to use a Windows POS to do it. It is no longer fun to have to use that.

105 posted on 09/26/2014 1:04:40 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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