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They're right. If you do a large Linux desktop install these days, you'd better make sure it's done right. Then it can save money. Slapping together a Windows system these days is more forgiving.

And, therefore, it's no wonder that people aren't moving to Apple on the desktop.

And, therefore, it's no wonder that people aren't moving to Apple on the desktop.

The sheeple stick with what they know, even if it isn't what's best. The best line I've heard lately went like "A company stupid enough to go with Windows in the first place deserves the expense of getting hit with all these worms."

Survival of the fittest.

Speaking of people using Macs, it turns out Macs are the computer of preference for the hard-core computer security guys at the FBI:

many of the computer security folks back at FBI HQ use Macs running OS X, since those machines can do just about anything: run software for Mac, Unix, or Windows, using either a GUI or the command line. And they're secure out of the box. In the field, however, they don't have as much money to spend, so they have to stretch their dollars by buying WinTel-based hardware.

It's sad the FBI has to get by on old PC notebooks not even sold anymore. But when they do have the money, a mid-line iBook costs the same as the mid-line value ThinkPad (the brand the agent was using), and has a bigger hard drive.