Quote Originally Posted by kevin7 View Post
MS makes my job easier and finds me porn and cigars ,Apple makes a nice music player. I purchase things I am willing to pay for and pass on what I don't see the value in. Ya gotta admit windows ME blew whale cock
ROFLMAO

Amen that. I never used it to be completely honest. I have an unopened copy in my desk with the shrink wrap still on it. I knew it was an "Edsel" before the copy was gifted to me so I never touched it. Vista was just another ME and therefore a POS so I never touched it either.

I have copies of most every MS operating system since (and including) DOS. I have about 10 different flavors of Linux and both Open/FreeBSD on CD/DVD in a desk drawer and have Windows XP/7, Redhat Linux, CentOS Linux and OpenBSD running on computers in my home office.

I would have liked to only have to learn one OS (operating system) but that would have limited my employability too much.


Quote Originally Posted by kingbeefy View Post
I have never understood the generic hatred for certain tech companies.
Me either. I hate them all equally..........

I've worked with all different platforms and each has it's advantages and disadvantages. Personally, I think anybody unwilling to learn new OS's is limiting themselves more than I'm willing to. While I'm no aficionado of Linux/UNIX (I suck at programming/scripting), I know my way around them good enough to work with them. The first computer I ever put my hands on was a Mac and within two weeks I was so far ahead of the class it wasn't funny because it made sense to me and I was able to learn more on my own than I could with the instructor's help. But then I've always been a quick study on most things and have always been willing to learn.



Quote Originally Posted by FordRaptorFiend View Post
Most don't like change. I refuse to buy an android phone or tablet but that's because I'm accustomed to Apple. I feel lost using something else so I automatically dislike it even if it's a great product.
And therein lies the crux of the situation.

In my experience, it happens like this....

You (a generalization to make my point) started with whichever OS and hung out with other people who used the same OS. They all "hated" the other guys so you decided to "hate" all the rest too. Mostly because you didn't know the other OS's and learning them would take time that you didn't want to spend. It's not that you couldn't, it's that you didn't want to because each has it's own learning curve and some curves are much longer than others. Linux/UNIX used to be prime examples of a longer learning curve. But now with Linux versions like Ubuntu they've become very user friendly and therefore very much like MS and the learning curve has dropped somewhat from what it used to be. I've always been tickled by the fact that the fanatic Linux/UNIX crowd that hate MS have spent so much time and effort making their favorite OS more MS-like. It's a humorous irony that always makes me smile.

I've been unhappy with MS many times.....hell, I've been working with them for most of 20 years so that's unavoidable.....but hate them? Hate Linux/UNIX? Hate Mac/Apple? Hell no, life's to short and that would be a grand waste of time. Besides, I enjoy change and new challenges and pity anybody who doesn't.