Linked by alcibiades on Wed 10th May 2006 19:40 UTC
I started out as a Mac user in about 1985 in a world which will be totally unfamiliar to almost all readers of OSNews. You wrote out your stuff by longhand, and a secretary typed it on a word processor. If you were lucky and able to manage it, you could dictate it. But you did not dictate into a dictating machine, because these were big heavy and expensive. You dictated it directly to someone who could 'take shorthand'. If you had a PC, it ran DOS. You looked for your files, and moved them around, started applications, one at a time, from the command line, and the command line was not pretty, it was green on black.
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Macs in the past, but you didn't think the price of new Macs was worth it, Windows 2000 worked "well enough," and you were happy with your Windows boxen.
I've used both platforms for years, and I still despise Windows. I despise the spyware/adware issue, above all, and will not subject myself to that on my machines. Compared to the author's assertion, I've RARELY found Windows to be "plug n play."
I like Linux, but I've tried installing a wireless card on two or three laptops running various distros, and never had it work. I don't have time for that. Control panels are just gui frontends for command-line apps, and don't seem to solve the problem I'm having at the moment (one desktop refuses to change resolution from 1024x768, which was too high for the old monitor I have). It just would not change, no matter what I tried.
When I tell my iBook to change resolution, it CHANGES. It's usually fast enough (a G3 800) and though I have a few issues, I enjoy using it. I go help a friend or family member with their Windows machine, I TOLERATE it, I don't like it.