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Deepthought
Windows.
Why not?
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Deepthought
Linux, why not?
Bad support for playing games.
Apple, why not?
Because a number of reasons. If I had to choose one, it would be this; it's crap.
*BSD, why not?
I don't know what that is.
Plan 9, why not?
Plan 9 From Outer Space? That was a crap film, that's why not.
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Skyfire
I'd be using Linux now if I weren't a lazy SOB.
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abulurd
Im neither in a band nor am I unemployed(same thing) nor am I "hip". Those reasons, combined with the fact that i enjoy playing non blizzard games once in a while means that I own a pc.
Also tim buckely back when he was funny.
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20021126.jpg
Also for shiggles here is maddox's view on the subject(naughty language alert)
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-22EpQOm8c
This is all I can say when I see this topic....
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Also tim buckely back when he was funny.
B^U was never funny.
Games aren't the only use for computers.
Well, I don't see any advantage a Mac has over a PC for me, and they have the large disadvantage of a small games range. So, there you are.
Mac has its uses.
Not for me.
A type of Unix system. Unix is an operating system design Bell Labs came up with. Linux is basically a Unix-clone at the basic level, written to be entirely FOSS. Macs are also run on Unix. Windows is not. The popular features of Unix systems are security and stability that no Windows machine has ever known.
Good for them. The thing is, I don't really ever forsee me needing a personal computer with a higher level of security or stability than the one I currently own.
No, "Plan 9 from Bell Labs" (that's literally what it's called, copied from the movie title). It's the research successor to Unix.
Ok, I'll remember that for when I need a research machine.
A lot of media work is done on Macs. Unix and Linux is responsible for running a good majority of the servers that make up the internet you enjoy so much and many supercomputers that have solved problems and brought new breakthroughs in medicine that may save your life one day.
Sewers are repsonsible for removing waste from everyday life and important in the hygiene of a country.
Do I want to live in one? No.
Windows machines?, they game better.. it kind of pales in comparison.
Yeah man I'm totally gonna use my machine for the other stuff you listed...
Oh wait.
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Hobgoblin
Windows because that was the first thing I started with when I first started using a computer back in the early 1990s, and I can't switch to something different, it's too much of a pain in the ass.
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Merfed
Correction: Windows, OS X, or Linux. It's not a contest, it's a choice. If you don't like linux, don't use it. Same goes for Windows and OS X.
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Nitewalkr
What would you use if each company had an equal share of the PC business?
/discuss and feel free to show that anti-Mircosoft love
Apple Mac Pro.
have ability and support to run windows OS and can share 32bits of ram with it.
Allows you to boot camp.
Good processor for linux users and linux
Does not screw up if you wish to install Litestep for your desktop modification.
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Windows.
Does not have ability to support nor run Apple mac desktop (if needed).
Does not have any sort of boot strap except for the ones provided FOR microsoft products such as Visual Studio.NET and so on.
Glitches up and leaves you at the blue screen showing errors while you try to install Litestep.
......
I'd go with Mac but its too expensive, but I am saving up for it.
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Slimda
As it is today, I use a windows Computer, both at work and at home.
The reason I use it at home is simple. I've always used it, it's fairly simple to use and fixing errors is quite easy since I know my way around there. Games work, music works and movies work. I'm content.
Linux. I've tried it, and I've liked it, but it's too much work to get it to work properly with non-linux games. When people here say that "But Linux is good, you can use it for servers and stuff"; you're just being silly. Regular people don't want a server. Regular people don't want a movie-making-machine. Regular people want a computer to surf the web on and play computergames. At the moment, a Windows-machine fits those criterias the most.
Mac. I haven't tried this, but I presume it suffers slightly from some of Linux's other problems.
They're all great operative systems for each of their uses. But for a standard home-user, he's better off with Windows.
Everybody knows windows, everybody with computer-skills can fix a windows-PC, and a quick google-search provides you with the answer to your windows-problems in 9 out of 10 cases.
With Linux? You have to know your *!@# if you plan on using it. Atleast I had to spend hours upon hours to read about how to use linux. Tedious.
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airtonix
Windows, because it's easy and cheap and does what I want.
I actually find linux far easier to install than windows or os x.
strange but true, the entire 2,800 odd applications I can install on linux with synaptics means i can also keep them up to date via the unmetered servers of my isp.
and any piece of software i care to obtain that isn't provided by my offical software repository, will assuredly have a ppa of its own, meaning apt-get can update it also.
Can't do that in windows, not even windows 7 has managed to imitate apt-get.
love how each piece of software in windows is responsible for keeping itself updated :
one day on windows:
You: might open X program
Computer : No
You: WTF?
Computer : ....
Your Network : QQ
You: FFFFFUUUUUU....
Everybody knows windows, everybody with computer-skills can fix a windows-PC,
Lies
and a quick google-search provides you with the answer to your windows-problems in 9 out of 10 cases.
More Lies.
With Linux? You have to know your *!@# if you plan on using it. Atleast I had to spend hours upon hours to read about how to use linux. Tedious.
Yet more lies
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