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Why do people hate macs and mac users?
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Bullies.
I know some people who hate macs...they also love Daft Punk, steampunk and think all women are cooks. It's the internet my friends...all just one big echoed opinion.
I get crap from people all the time, because i use mac. It hurts, you know? I would never insult someone personally or be as disrespectful, because some purchased a product that I didn't, myself, enjoy.
I've shown a few of my 4chan addicted friends my mac and taught them how to use it. They all liked it, but it still irks me that people and behave like this.
I know some people who hate macs...they also love Daft Punk, steampunk and think all women are cooks. It's the internet my friends...all just one big echoed opinion.
I get crap from people all the time, because i use mac. It hurts, you know? I would never insult someone personally or be as disrespectful, because some purchased a product that I didn't, myself, enjoy.
I've shown a few of my 4chan addicted friends my mac and taught them how to use it. They all liked it, but it still irks me that people and behave like this.
It might be because they are the type of people who like to argue everything under the sun for arguments sake
But if they were given a mac for christmas i guarantee they would be using it in some form or another
But if they were given a mac for christmas i guarantee they would be using it in some form or another
That's how things are. People like to echo an opinion and are pretty damned aggressive about it. I, myself, have been using a mac for about three years. It still works like the day I got it, aside from the new stuff I put on it.
If I were you I would say this when they try to state their opinion as fact: "You act so damned childish; it's all about preference. You like windows, well good for you. I like mac, so...? Good for me. What you need to do is start a little bit of independent thinking and so echoing an opinion that is popular. Frankly the way you are acting is pathetic."
I am not a fanboi, but it does hurt when someone insults the user instead of the product. There is a koolaid out there and it wasn't drank by mac users, that much is for sure.
In one of my classes, a girl brought in a NEW 15" MBP, and some other kid bodychecked it right off of her desk and said that Macs are the worst computers on the earth. The screen was shattered. That IDIOT was suspended and will have to buy her a NEW Mac, even though that one will get fixed.
There's always this sig from another user here. "The box said Requires Windows 95 or better, so I bought a Mac."
While I will give a pass to the people I know who don't like Macs because they are ignorant of them, destruction of property is inexcusable. Maybe the pain in his pocket will tone him down a bit.
Dale
The answer is easy....
They feel threatened. They have spent years clicking and pointer their way around MS Windows to the point where now they are "experts" and are able to do things most people can't, like install software and change the background wall paper. Everything non-Windos is a challenge to their standing as an expert.
Real experts, the people who can write software for several platforms or who have studied operating system internals rarely have such a strong opinion about which is "best" because there status as being top in their field is more secure.
You can test my theory. Ask the next Mac hating Windows zealot a technical question about (say) Windows 7 device driver development or how to test you app for resilience to malformed XML files or whatever, anything that required knowledge of how Windows works under the desktop level. You find that the worst of the fan boys go away when you ask hard questions.
They feel threatened. They have spent years clicking and pointer their way around MS Windows to the point where now they are "experts" and are able to do things most people can't, like install software and change the background wall paper. Everything non-Windos is a challenge to their standing as an expert.
Real experts, the people who can write software for several platforms or who have studied operating system internals rarely have such a strong opinion about which is "best" because there status as being top in their field is more secure.
You can test my theory. Ask the next Mac hating Windows zealot a technical question about (say) Windows 7 device driver development or how to test you app for resilience to malformed XML files or whatever, anything that required knowledge of how Windows works under the desktop level. You find that the worst of the fan boys go away when you ask hard questions.
If i was as much a fool as i am thought to be i would toss my old gutted G4 at him.... But I have the logic to see that i would then get in trouble and overall solve nothing.
If i was as much a fool as i am thought to be i would toss my old gutted G4 at him.... But I have the logic to see that i would then get in trouble and overall solve nothing.
And waste a perfectly good gutted G4!
Dale
I think it's the hipster image. I don't have a problem with Macs and I love the beautiful screens and hardware design. But after a year of Mac (and before that a lifetime of PC use), I realised it was all looks and no substance.
This conclusion would probably be different if I were a graphics designer or programmer.
But I mainly use Office products, prepare documents, and create docs on my computer and need to organise, create, sort etc a lot of files. Mac OS X/Finder is probably the crappiest option for this type of work.
So, in answer to your question, most people hate Mac for the wrong (marketing and branding) reasons. The real reason people should prefer PC to Mac is for work purposes. I've never found PCs (I've used everything from Dells and Vaios to Toshibas and Acers) to be unstable in terms of OS.
To me, the biggest advantage OSX has over Windows is its multitasking abilities. If you're juggling multiple files between multiple programs, expose and virtual desktops are a godsend. You can get 3rd party programs to fill that void in Windows, but none of them are quite as nice in comparison.
On an individual program basis, there are some things run a little better in Windows, and others that run a little better in OSX, but really, there isn't a huge difference between the two.
That's interesting because I find it to be the exact opposite. I'm not too sure if you're talking about this in a programming context though. The Windows Taskbar is incredibly fully featured for rapid, one-click switching between documents and apps/programs.
The taskbar is more organized than the dock, I'll give you that, and is better at window management. Thing is, you don't really use the dock for window management like you do the taskbar. For that, you use expose. I find flicking my wrist to the bottom right corner of the screen and getting a nice overview of all my active windows arrayed in front of me to be much faster and more streamlined than jumping down to the taskbar and clicking on the individual icons to bring up what I want.
It's all a matter of preference, really. I do know some people who can't stand expose, and think being able to spot things by names to be quicker and easier. I think people who tend to be more visually oriented prefer it, while people who like a more organized hierarchy prefer Windows.
...though even with that in mind, there's still no excuse for MS not to include virtual desktops as a default part of the UI by now. They're so damn handy, there's no reason NOT to add them in.
I totally agree - if you're visually oriented then you'll like Expose. But if you do a lot of text-based work, it's invaluable to have the Taskbar and to be able to see the names of the files on the Taskbar to very quickly switch. Still, expose requires 2+ steps (swipe and find, and click) whereas with the Taskbar your need just a quick point down (or left or right or top) and click to access the window.
I used Mac for a year and didn't warm to virtual desktops at all for some reason.