NERDRAGE!
Just got into a couple parallel discussions on Twitter with Windows haters. The length people will go to in order to hate Microsoft is really quite impressive. I mentioned something about not switching to something else because of gaming and I was POUNCED upon. It was really really funny.
I am certainly NOT in the Gates fan club. But to trash what is almost certainly the most widely spread piece of software in the world because you’re a hipster jackass is really just humorous.
Let me be clear though. It’s a desktop operating system. It’s not up to the stability requirements of being a server OS, much less a “high availability” server system.
My primary box is a 2 year old gaming rig with a new vid card (I chronicled that escapade a couple weeks ago.) It handles everything I throw at it and does so with remarkable aplomb. I don’t get blue screens, it doesn’t spontaneously reboot. I don’t get bizarre crashing. It runs smoothly.
Every desktop OS has it’s annoyances.
When you get religious about it, you just sound like an asshole.
August 2nd, 2009 at 12:16 am
Every OS sucks equally for different reasons!
August 2nd, 2009 at 9:16 am
Well… With OS-X & Windows, I agree.
While Linux has that nice stable core, it’s really a godawful mess of duct tape and bailing wire. It’s not really a reflection on the individual open source development teams. But without a central authority keeping a leash on things it lacks a certain level of unity and polish. Things just don’t work well together.
August 4th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
I prefer my Macs for everyday use (mostly LAMP and Photoshop work), and fire up the Windows boxes only for gaming and testing HTML in that miserable turd called IE6, but I don’t advertise that fact because most Mac fans are basically religious fanatics who I don’t want to attract or be associated with.
But it is kind of cool that they come with a license allowing the user to pose as a “super-non-conformist artiste”. I hear you can re-sell those things for $500 in Williamsburg.