Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: dayglored

You'll see that I'm anything but a Windows/Microsoft fanboi.

You could have fooled me.


27 posted on 05/21/2017 11:17:56 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies ]


To: 867V309
> You could have fooled me.

Wow. Okay, well I'm not out to fool anybody.

Like I said on the profile page, I'm not anybody's fanboi. At the moment I'm typing on a MacMini running OS X, with two VMs going, one Windows 7, the other CentOS 6 (Linux). Because I do a lot of things that require all of those. I'm remotely VPN'ed into my Linux box at work.

The software company I work for is completely heterogeneous, and as a System Admin I deal daily with Ubuntu Linux, Unix (FreeBSD, NetBSD), Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows 7 and 10. I don't have time to play favorites.

My workstation there is, by my choice, CentOS Linux, because of all the above, I am most comfortable doing IT work in that environment. I has its limits for media (video and audio support are still, alas, pretty lame) but my employer doesn't pay me to watch videos.

If I had to choose only one operating system and no other for my personal use, it would probably be Mac OS X, because in addition to a very good GUI, it has real UNIX under the hood, and I can run my scores of POSIX utilities, decades of C programs and shell scripts, and other such things, in a true X11 environment. I consider it the best overall combination of ingredients, and their hardware is excellent, in my experience.

And that's why the actual Windows fanbois give me a hard time. They accuse me of hating Windows (I don't). They accuse me of hating Microsoft (I think Microsoft has a history of doing evil things, but I don't waste time with hating.)

So it's kind of refreshing to be called a Windows fanboi, as you did. It's completely untrue, but at least it's a change from the other accusations. :-)

Have a great evening, I'm on the East Coast and need to get some sleep before I get up for work. Cheers!

28 posted on 05/21/2017 11:38:09 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies ]

To: 867V309; dayglored
You could have fooled me.

I'm anything but a MS fanboi/gurl, though I use their products in certain scenarios, and I've always found dayglored's posts interesting, informative, and definitely not propaganda.

53 posted on 05/22/2017 11:44:45 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson