[dayglored]

> 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!

[867V309]

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

And yet, you never acknowledge any of the spycraft evil going on at microsuck.

Trust me, regarding your previous employment/field of work/expertise: nobody cares. so give it a rest.

Most everyone knows W10 is spyware, and your defending it only makes you look fanboi.

[thoughtomator]

Making a software recommendation, of software you do not have the ability to QA yourself, to strangers running software configurations you are not aware of and have no ability to inspect, observe, or troubleshoot, is an all-risk, no-benefit play.

If you’re going to stay in this industry you need to develop much much a better sense of liability and risk management, because it is inevitable that recklessness in this regard will come back to bite you sooner or later.