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I just use Linux and only Linux. I stopped using Windows completely two days ago.

Simply put: Mac OS X is the operating system that Apple uses. OS X is the successor to "classic" Mac OS. It's a very powerful and easy to use operating system.

You will go back to Windows in a few days when you realize that Ubuntu (or whatever Linux distro you are using) has only free "open-source" programs and it's easy to screw it up with no way of recovery. Not to mention it still lacks support for a lot of hardware and software.

You could use WINE... But there is no substitute for Windows. I love that name. Windows. I love saying "Windows". It makes me think of windows. I can look out of my windows and see what is outside. With Ubuntu, you're in a garage constantly having to tinker with things.

I love Windows. It's so beautiful. It's like the soul of a woman (computer). She can show you a good time, holds your memories, and she looks good, but you have to protect her. That's the beauty of Windows. You can't just go everywhere and not expect your data to get crushed by a virus. Haha!

Plus, the malfunctions of Windows make a lot of people a lot of money. I must be the only one who never has a problem with Windows 7 Ultimate.

Bill Gates is a genius.

Okay, now I know you're trolling.

Only if you have an inferior IQ and don't actually know how to use a computer.

I love the MacOS, and OSx, and I love linux also.

My sister and my friend owns a mac..... They are very good and very stable, I would definitely buy one but the thing I don't seem to like about the MacOS X is that fact that they are very expensive but yet very good quality laptop....
Yet with Mac's, it is really mainly aimed for people who does photography, art, movies etc and not for gaming... if you did want to use gaming, the best laptops to use is windows

Me I'm running a 4gb ram and 250GB hard drive, that must be very good i guess and that is excellent for gaming and going on the internet at the exact same time

I must say compatible isn't a word I usually associate with OSX or anything from Appl€.

You are wrong. Out of all of the operating systems Linux is the most out-of-box. Also in Unix and Unix-like operating systems (Linux, FreeBSD etc.) "everything is a file" which make customisation and system restoration a lot easier than Windows. Plus in Linux all the configuration files are easily editable formats and none are in proprietary formats. So in actual fact recovering a from a failure or crash (not that it happens when you know s**t) is so much easier on Linux.

It's a fully POSIX-compliant UNIX system. Unlike Windows, OS X adheres to open standards.


Depends very strongly on which distro you're using. If you're talking Ubuntu/Mint or similar then maybe, depending on what hardware you're using. But something like Gentoo, Arch or Slackware? Or Debian and Fedora on hardware that doesn't have open-source drivers?

True, but most of the time common hardware works with out a second thought.

Unless you want to stick with the command line, POSIX won't get you far.

And you are wrong in saying that Windows can't be POSIX compliant. M$ has provided an optional POSIX subsystem since the very first version of NT.

It also has X windows in the default install. Right now I'm running a source-compiled chess program that's only actually developed for Linux (gtk-based). And POSIX compliance is quite important.


It's only partially POSIX-compliant, and frankly it's more of a cheap emulation layer than a true POSIX subsystem. It's like WINE- sure, it lets you run some of the stuff, but you'd be out of your mind to claim it's a real replacement.

Really? It seems to me that anything you can do with Windows, you can do just as easily on a Macintosh. The bottom line is, every user has different needs, and each user should choose the OS that they want to use, not the one that someone else says is "better". There is no "best" OS.

Windows 7 is incredible. Vista was alright, but hogged my memory. I don't like Mac OS X period and find that using Ubuntu is just as good as using mac OS X.