Comments on: Nobody cares what platform you use. Period.

By: Someone

Someone — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:58:37 +0000

Superb article here… People just keep blabbing about OS and which one is better and which one is worst. As long as the one you are using serves ur purpose, then shut the f~~k up and leave others to decide which one to use. It is not a religion.

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:22:15 +0000

And amazingly enough, NTFS had its roots on VMS; check this out:

http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/4494/windows-nt-and-vms-the-rest-of-the-story.html

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:18:12 +0000

Well, to be fair, I’ve already toyed with a dozen of Linux “flavours”, not counting the mainframe OS’s of the past (yes, I am that old). The champion of all this time is still DEC’s VAX VMS operating system. But that was a working tool, and very good at that; we are talking fancy interfaces here.

By: Piers Jones

Piers Jones — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:01:28 +0000

I multi-boot XP, Customised and stripped XP for recovery, Vista Ultimate, Fedora, Ubuntu, DOS, a patched OS X Leopard, OpenBSD, Server 2008, and a more-or-less pointless OS that just writes ‘Hello World’ to the screen…

I should be satisfied, but I’m not.

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:51:59 +0000

Mahmoud, I feel like a poor fellow from a 3rd world country (which I am, but that’s something else). An M6? Oh my, I feel humiliated. BMW is one of my dreams too. I got an itty-bitty ’99 Mercedes A160. And only the brand name makes people think I got some money in my back pockets!
This thing of brand-loyalty and respect is funny thing among people. We should use this care and respect to actual people, not things we use to go to work and back!

I gues we are getting too phylosophical here!

Best regards,

Edu

By: Mahmoud Al-Qudsi

Mahmoud Al-Qudsi — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:42:28 +0000

Eduardo, that’s an interesting point! But I think it’s just more of a matter of how far you take your preference vs actually having a preference in the first place.

For instance, I’m a BMW zealot (BMW M6 FTW!!!!)… and though I jokingly put down any other car (Lexus, Mazerrati, and Lamborghini excepted), I don’t have a problem with the people driving other cars….. and can accept that they’re decent modes of transportation as well.

(not as good as BMW though, of course! J/k :P)

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:26:48 +0000

Agreed in full. But people have this ‘brand-loyalty fever’ in things just like, say, car brands, soccer (or any sport) teams, and so. It makes the human kind more ape-like than fur!

Greetings from Brazil,

By: richard

richard — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:38:05 +0000

On the other hand, some OSs perform better than others – faster, more stable, etc. – some have more applications available, some have better hardware support and some are prettier than others (not my favorite criterion). All else being equal, faster and more stable would be better, assuming you have the tools to get your job done.

For example, many believe Vista is slower than XP, with less program and hardware support. If so, it would seem a worse OS than XP.

That being said, the religious fury behind some OS comments is nuts.

By: Gordon Keenan

Gordon Keenan — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:22:20 +0000

Bottom line, the people who bleat and moan about an operating system are usually the ones who don’t do anything creative or constructive on their computers! They spend so much time bleating, they never have enough time to actually do anything else!!

“I” like Windows!
“I” like the look of the MAC!
“I” do not like Linux

These are my opinions, but the bottom line is, I make a living from Microsoft products, I would be broke if I had to try and make a living from the Mac or Linus side!

By: Marty

Marty — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:19:54 +0000

Oh yeah I do remember DOS.
Hey, when I had a Commodore 64 I thought DOS was high tech!
Man I suddenly feel old…

By: Kristan Kenney

Kristan Kenney — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:44:42 +0000

SnowDogNZ: I agree with you on this, the whole browser war is pointless. Some people like Internet Explorer, some like Firefox, some like Safari, Opera, and whatever. As long as it can display web pages, that’s all that really matters. It all comes down to personal preference.

By: SnowDogNZ

SnowDogNZ — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:09:12 +0000

You know this is almost the same with the web browser war. People swear by firefox, safari, opera etc. and others just prefer the default browser in the OS. Personally if I can access the pages I want make them show up most of the content correctly, I don’t care how I get there, just as long as I do.

Nice blog though, I think a lot of people are now realising that this OS war is really pointless.

By: Matt Freedman

Matt Freedman — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:41:50 +0000

Eventually people will realize that Windows and Mac OSX are equal. They both have their ups and downs, but those equal out. I wouldn’t say Linux is equal to Windows and Mac, yet, but it’s still a contender which some people prefer.

No operating system is “the best”, since that’s more personal opinion, and the kind of opinion which doesn’t need to be “expressed” unless asked (or something, you understand what I mean).

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:32:40 +0000

The whole OS war is so pointless, if you really care, then there is something wrong with the important things in your life. And why does Apple have to run attack ads, not so different from political ones, to try to bump up support. And it really doesn’t matter what you’re running on your computer, but price is always important.

By: coral

coral — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:21:26 +0000

well, I was directed here by the #windows ppl on irc freenode, but in my defence i would like to say I really really don’t care what OS, or about all the pretty transparent animated gadgety widgety things, but I just wish the one I *buy* would do at least the things it promises, as for my undies, Ill manage those myself from now on…