![]() Despite Windows’ shortcomings, when you boot into it, things just work for the most part, and you don’t have to hit the command line to get that damned sound card to work.Īt present, I see only one viable alternative to Windows, and that’s the Mac. We’ve all heard stories of people who have turned away from Windows to check out Linux, but most of the time, they become frustrated and head back to the safety of the Start menu. I wonder what kind of out-of-the-box experience I’d get with that.) (One caveat to this point: I would love to try out a PC that has Linux pre-installed. For those without a qualified Geek nearby, Linux is simply an unattainable fantasy, something certainly hyped to a great extent, but nothing they’ll be able to manage on their own. Look, I’m right there with the Penguin crowd, desperately wanting a super-slick Linux desktop, but it’s just not there, folks. For the Intel crowd, there’s Linux, a gorgeous, ideologically-pure OS with every capability that Windows has…except for usability. Not for everyone, surely, but for the majority of the average, non-technical crowd, it’s become a weight they don’t even know they’re carrying. The facts are becoming too huge to ignore: Windows has become a liability. In fact, I’m already set up to visit my in-laws this weekend for yet another “cleaning session”. I’m sure many of you have had the experience of supporting family and friends through constant pop-ups, crippled systems and other bizarre behaviour. The cracks are appearing in the Microsoft monopoly’s facade: increasing feature bloat, lagging performance on ever-faster hardware, security nightmares thanks to ever-more-interoperable software.įor the average Windows user on a broadband connection, it’s a bad, bad world. Once the penetration levels were complete at work, it began at home, and now you find Windows mindshare is at least as great as its market share.īut just because you can do anything with Windows, doesn’t mean it’s the best overall computing experience. Today, if you enter any workplace, chances are you’ll find Windows PCs sitting on every desktop…including my own. Slick marketing and an accessible development platform sealed the deal. In the mid-’90s, it offered a shiny GUI that CIOs understood, and hosted all the business apps that allowed their worker bees to get the job done. Windows is popular in the business world because it works. ![]() Like many, I toil daily on the Windows platform, but I come home to my Mac for real fun, and to get real work done. ![]() However, I have spent considerable time using other machines, and in true OSNews Geek fashion, I have spent equally considerable time playing with other operating systems. I have been using the Mac since 1988, and I haven’t really looked back. ![]() Full disclosure: I am a traditional Mac Zealot. No OS is perfect, but by combining the ease of use that Windows users expect, and the eminent hackability of the *NIX platforms, OS X makes a great case for a one-size-fits-all solution. ![]()
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