PC vs Mac vs Linux I need your help please!!

[cousinlucky]

Ms Karen De Coster is one of my favorite writers ( the woman has spunk )! I recently commented on her website that a PC running Linux is better than a Mac. My reason for stating that is I have relatives using Mac's and their machines need fixing a lot.

I have never used Vista ( thank heavens ) and I have only spent a few minutes on a Mac checking my email. I know a couple of professional photographers who would not think of using anything but a Mac.

I have made a statement but I can not prove it. Ms De Coster's article is linked below and I need the experienced knowledge of LF members to refute her claim if that is possible! Thanks!

Mac vs PC, and Why Mac Wins by Karen De Coster

At her website: Karen De Coster -

Ms De Coster has posted " Linux Geeks "

[oz]

I wouldn't worry too much over it because it's all subjective and a matter of personal opinion. Obviously she hasn't proven to you that a Mac is better, so how will you ever prove to her that your choice is better? Even if you should get more people to say that a PC with Linux is better than a Mac, that doesn't make it so.

[KenJackson]

The word linux does not appear in that article.

The problem is, people confuse the word Windows with PC or even computer. She thinks she's griping about a PC, but she's really griping about Windows. Don't defend Windows.

[cousinlucky]

I encounter the myth that everyone who uses any Linux distro has to be a " Geek " so often that it does irk me, Ozar!!

Computer Geeks do use Linux and so do a lot of other people!

The way that I look at it; if a 65 year old complete computer illiterate, like me, can use Linux than anybody can use Linux!!

[MikeTbob]

The word linux does not appear in that article.

The problem is, people confuse the word Windows with PC or even computer. She thinks she's griping about a PC, but she's really griping about Windows. Don't defend Windows.

I think he was referring to this.
Karen De Coster -

[KenJackson]

Ah! Thank you, Mike Tbob.

You know, ten years ago, she would have had a point. But Linux has come a long way while she's had her eyes shut and mind made up. Oh well. Her loss.

But what does this mean?

...perhaps then I could take up the Linux/computer geek hobby and join you all in Anarcho-LinuxLand.

Anarcho-LinuxLand?? Anarcho share the same root as anarchy? I don't get it.

Oh wait. She writes to get a reaction. She doesn't believe that--she just wants people to become agitated. I think I'll pass just this once.

[bigvoo]

Lately I kind of like it when people put down linux, I just think " good " one more knucklehead off the linux bus...here's my 2 cents. I started on apple/mac, now the one good thing was back then ( late 80's early 90's the mac guys could run unix shells flawlessly while the p.c guys hard a hard time with that.. ) any how in the mid 90's macs went through a period of poor hardware ( i knew 4 people who had problems with the exact same machines ) so after my $ 2500. power book died , i said that's it and bought a p.c ( which i instantly hated ) and then I heard about linux, and remembered how much i liked running the unix shell back in the day, I used a long dead dell laptop to learn how to install linux, and never looked back. so now I just don't even discuss o.s's with people, I just do my own thing... LINUX

[questio verum]

Thanks for clearing that up, Mike. I don't devote much energy to these things anymore. If someone is going to embrace linux... cool. If they prefer something else... fine. I don't see any point in proselytizing the unwilling and unconvinced. Let them come looking and I'll willingly share what I know. Know what I mean?

As for Ms. De Coster... She smacks of someone who's just a little bit full of themselves, to me. But I could be wrong. After all, I'm just one of those obtuse "linux-heads" that she felt compelled to whine about.


qv

[Lakshmipathi]

yes..never mind - I hope you have seen this :
IBM Press room - 2009-05-21 Global Survey Shows Linux Desktop Easier to Deploy Than Expected - United States
"Global Survey Shows Linux Desktop Easier to Deploy Than Expected"

As long as we know who the _real_ winner is ... we don't need to care about some one view like.... M$ Vista wins ...or Mac wins ...or Xyz wins

[teenytinylinuxgrl]

I encounter the myth that everyone who uses any Linux distro has to be a " Geek " so often that it does irk me, Ozar!!

Computer Geeks do use Linux and so do a lot of other people!

The way that I look at it; if a 65 year old complete computer illiterate, like me, can use Linux than anybody can use Linux!!

When you encounter that, give them your own "testimony" about how a non-geeky guy like you can use Linux, and send them to my article about non-geeky kids using it effortlessly!

Amy