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Can I ask why? I'm really curious, I don't believe I know anyone who has ever switched back to Windows from OS X. I use Win 7 at work and OS X at home, and whil

Can I ask why? I'm really curious, I don't believe I know anyone who has ever switched back to Windows from OS X. I use Win 7 at work and OS X at home, and while Win 7 is the best version of Windows I've ever used (and I started on 3.1), it's no match for OS X.

anonymous246 16y ago
I tried Mac for some time and LOVED LOVED the lack of crapware, but I found it overrated: 1. Blurry text :) 2. iLife apps are nicely approximated by Windows Live. Before I checked out Windows Live Movie Maker, I was very impressed with iMovie. 3. Lack of apps (e.g., wasn't able to find a decent fullscreen, borderless terminal emulator like the alt-enter mode of putty). 4. Didn't seem especially fast or anything compared to Windows (on a 4G machine). 5. Loved the unixyness of the OS. But it's subtly not Unix, which breaks some things. E.g., macports' GCC 4.5.1 + gdb wasn't stable compared to Apple's older versions of gcc. I now ssh into an Ubuntu box from Windows (putty + tmux + consolas FTW) for development.
- rimantas 16y ago
  #3: Visor #5: OS X is certified UNIX, you cannot get more unixy than that.
- labria 16y ago
  #3 iTerm2
jquery 16y ago
OS X has the terminal, that's about the only major thing I'd give it over Windows 7, and is the reason I use it at work. I particularly like Win7's great hardware support; I recently built a $2000+ gaming desktop, and it handled all the newfangled hardware like it was born to do it. Another major advantage is multitasking even in the most arduous circumstances--Windows 7 made my older PC* run much faster than my shiny new Macbook Pro. My Macbook Pro is constantly giving me the middle finger in the form of that little bouncing beach ball. I could go on but I don't own Microsoft stock. *That PC was a low end 4-year-old Athlon dual core that could barely play 720p YouTube videos, as a point of comparison. For it to beat my new Macbook Pro in everyday usage was just damning.
dagw 16y ago
I've also mostly switched back. From a day to day usability standpoint I honestly don't find any compelling difference between the two. They both have their annoyances, but nothing that is significantly worse than the other. Both let me get my work done without getting too much in my way. Windows on the other gives me a far wider selection of hardware and software.
stonemetal 16y ago
For me it is the fact that the system seems to have multiple personality disorder. There is a unix system in there and a Mac system in there, the two are not well integrated. There were a number of times I would do something in bash and not be able to find it in finder. It has been a while since I used it but at the time smp support was quite poor. Running a build that would max out one processor of a dual processor box would cause the system become unusable, as it tried to load balance the one job between the processors. Sadly in my experience so far, Win7 has been more stable than OS X.

anonymous246 16y ago

I tried Mac for some time and LOVED LOVED the lack of crapware, but I found it overrated: 1. Blurry text :) 2. iLife apps are nicely approximated by Windows Live. Before I checked out Windows Live Movie Maker, I was very impressed with iMovie. 3. Lack of apps (e.g., wasn't able to find a decent fullscreen, borderless terminal emulator like the alt-enter mode of putty). 4. Didn't seem especially fast or anything compared to Windows (on a 4G machine). 5. Loved the unixyness of the OS. But it's subtly not Unix, which breaks some things. E.g., macports' GCC 4.5.1 + gdb wasn't stable compared to Apple's older versions of gcc. I now ssh into an Ubuntu box from Windows (putty + tmux + consolas FTW) for development.

rimantas 16y ago
#3: Visor #5: OS X is certified UNIX, you cannot get more unixy than that.
labria 16y ago
#3 iTerm2

jquery 16y ago

OS X has the terminal, that's about the only major thing I'd give it over Windows 7, and is the reason I use it at work. I particularly like Win7's great hardware support; I recently built a $2000+ gaming desktop, and it handled all the newfangled hardware like it was born to do it. Another major advantage is multitasking even in the most arduous circumstances--Windows 7 made my older PC* run much faster than my shiny new Macbook Pro. My Macbook Pro is constantly giving me the middle finger in the form of that little bouncing beach ball. I could go on but I don't own Microsoft stock. *That PC was a low end 4-year-old Athlon dual core that could barely play 720p YouTube videos, as a point of comparison. For it to beat my new Macbook Pro in everyday usage was just damning.

dagw 16y ago

I've also mostly switched back. From a day to day usability standpoint I honestly don't find any compelling difference between the two. They both have their annoyances, but nothing that is significantly worse than the other. Both let me get my work done without getting too much in my way. Windows on the other gives me a far wider selection of hardware and software.

stonemetal 16y ago

For me it is the fact that the system seems to have multiple personality disorder. There is a unix system in there and a Mac system in there, the two are not well integrated. There were a number of times I would do something in bash and not be able to find it in finder. It has been a while since I used it but at the time smp support was quite poor. Running a build that would max out one processor of a dual processor box would cause the system become unusable, as it tried to load balance the one job between the processors. Sadly in my experience so far, Win7 has been more stable than OS X.