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My Android devices 'just work'. I also advice novice users to buy Windows for their laptops, even though I, personally, prefer Linux. Windows gets a lot of cr

by Expez 14y ago

My Android devices 'just work'. I also advice novice users to buy Windows for their laptops, even though I, personally, prefer Linux. Windows gets a lot of crap from more advanced users, but it's amazing how everything 'just works' on that platform considering the huge amount of software and hardware that is supported. My mom bought herself an iPhone earlier this year and has been very happy with its usability, but I would never, ever, let her install anything but Windows on her laptop.

mberning 14y ago
What kind of novice user buys a laptop and questions changing the OS, or even knows what an OS is, or that there is even an alternative? I think you claims are ... dubious. Novice users, like my grandmother, never ask me if they should install Windows. They just ask me to fix it after it breaks. And it breaks often. On the contrary, when I put something like an iPad in their hands I go a lot longer between support calls. That's my experience having dealt with more than a few 'novice users'.
- Expez 14y ago
  You are right, novice users don't install operating systems, but most laptops come with one pre-installed. Not knowing any better they could simply go by aesthetics when they select computers. In this case they are likely to end up with an Apple product: the computer itself, as well as the UI, looks very good. edit: I was a bit confused by your reply, but I now see why: I wrote 'install Windows' when perhaps should have written 'use Windows, or 'buy a computer with anything but Windows'. My mistake!
moakleaf 14y ago
My relatives' Windows PCs always break and it is always a real pain to fix them. There are also problems on the Macs in the family, but they are generally more wrt. 3rd party software. It is far from perfect in Mac-land, but definitely much better than Windows. It is not a "just works" platform!

by Expez 14y ago

mberning 14y ago

What kind of novice user buys a laptop and questions changing the OS, or even knows what an OS is, or that there is even an alternative? I think you claims are ... dubious. Novice users, like my grandmother, never ask me if they should install Windows. They just ask me to fix it after it breaks. And it breaks often. On the contrary, when I put something like an iPad in their hands I go a lot longer between support calls. That's my experience having dealt with more than a few 'novice users'.

Expez 14y ago
You are right, novice users don't install operating systems, but most laptops come with one pre-installed. Not knowing any better they could simply go by aesthetics when they select computers. In this case they are likely to end up with an Apple product: the computer itself, as well as the UI, looks very good. edit: I was a bit confused by your reply, but I now see why: I wrote 'install Windows' when perhaps should have written 'use Windows, or 'buy a computer with anything but Windows'. My mistake!

moakleaf 14y ago

My relatives' Windows PCs always break and it is always a real pain to fix them. There are also problems on the Macs in the family, but they are generally more wrt. 3rd party software. It is far from perfect in Mac-land, but definitely much better than Windows. It is not a "just works" platform!