I hate that from people. I've never had a mac crash on me before. I don't know what the fuck you weirdos have in your brain that says "macs always crash," but do you ever hear of a Blue Screen of Death on a Mac? No. What do people always whine about? How Windows is always so unstable. I don't get it. It's not that I'm having my fangirl feathers ruffled. I work with PC's day in and day out. And I've found out by using them, PC's are utter shit. There's never been a mac that's been brought in with problems. It's always a PC that eats something, gets a virus, dies, explodes, won't start for no reason, crashes, anything.
I've had the opposite experience. I've been using PCs since Windows 3.1, and they've been real easy on me.
I had more lockups, crashes, refusal to boot and other such "PC Issues" in one school year in the mac lab than I've had in SIX YEARS of 12+ hour a day usage of this ONE system (it's been 3 different computers, but I literally imaged my hard drive from the older ones to the newer ones, keeping the same install, settings, everything)
In the last 6 years, know how many Blue Screens I've had? 2. And both circumstances were due to shitty software that was promptly uninstalled afterwards, and problem solved.
Maybe I know how to treat my system, but my windows has always been rock-stable for me. And i'll never, EVER give up the level of control I have over my OS for the myriad layers of interface a Mac has. I'm not a command-line junkie like Rob, but I can and do know how to use the CL well, and it's served me well.
The vast majority of people I've known who have had to regularly work with both PCs and Macs have preferred the PCs - even for things like Photoshop.
I know you work in tech Support and you have to deal with those shitty problems... but in my experience, the leading cause of all of those problems is NOT Windows. It's the moronic lusers who own the damn things and don't know what they're doing with them. The only time my system has eaten a file has been when I fucked up - and I undeleted it anyways. I've been online for 8 years and have never been infected with a virus, even though I've only had a virus scanner for 2 years. The only things that have ever exploded on me have been pieces of old, used hardware. Crashes are normally caused by buggy 3rd Party software, NOT the OS. And the only time my comp has ever refused to boot was because my keyboard had silently died, and thus the system couldn't detect a keyboard hooked up.
We have different experiences. I'm not denying yours, I never did. I said that video reflected MY experiences. And obviously that guy's experience as well - we're not unique.
But I do wholly believe that the majority of computer problems are caused by incompetent users and shitty 3rd party software, NOT the underlying OS.
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Date: 2004-05-14 02:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-14 10:46 am (UTC)But it does describe my experiences with Macs perfectly, and why I hate them.
Sorry for ruffling your fangirl feathers... but you did know "Macintosh" is an acronym, right?
M achine
A lways
C rashes,
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H angs
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Date: 2004-05-14 10:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-14 11:19 am (UTC)I had more lockups, crashes, refusal to boot and other such "PC Issues" in one school year in the mac lab than I've had in SIX YEARS of 12+ hour a day usage of this ONE system (it's been 3 different computers, but I literally imaged my hard drive from the older ones to the newer ones, keeping the same install, settings, everything)
In the last 6 years, know how many Blue Screens I've had? 2. And both circumstances were due to shitty software that was promptly uninstalled afterwards, and problem solved.
Maybe I know how to treat my system, but my windows has always been rock-stable for me. And i'll never, EVER give up the level of control I have over my OS for the myriad layers of interface a Mac has. I'm not a command-line junkie like Rob, but I can and do know how to use the CL well, and it's served me well.
The vast majority of people I've known who have had to regularly work with both PCs and Macs have preferred the PCs - even for things like Photoshop.
I know you work in tech Support and you have to deal with those shitty problems... but in my experience, the leading cause of all of those problems is NOT Windows. It's the moronic lusers who own the damn things and don't know what they're doing with them.
The only time my system has eaten a file has been when I fucked up - and I undeleted it anyways. I've been online for 8 years and have never been infected with a virus, even though I've only had a virus scanner for 2 years. The only things that have ever exploded on me have been pieces of old, used hardware. Crashes are normally caused by buggy 3rd Party software, NOT the OS. And the only time my comp has ever refused to boot was because my keyboard had silently died, and thus the system couldn't detect a keyboard hooked up.
We have different experiences. I'm not denying yours, I never did. I said that video reflected MY experiences. And obviously that guy's experience as well - we're not unique.
But I do wholly believe that the majority of computer problems are caused by incompetent users and shitty 3rd party software, NOT the underlying OS.
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Date: 2004-05-14 11:20 am (UTC)the end.