Posted by mactime on 01/28/73 11:46

On 2006-04-30 09:21:04 -0500, Dave Balderstone
<dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca> said:

> In article <bgrubb-831519.07595330042006@news.zianet.com>, Bruce Grubb
> <bgrubb@zianet.com> wrote:
>
>> There are reasons Mac users thank WIndows users are Idiots.
>
> Hmm. What an amazingly ignorant generalization.
>
> I'm a Mac user, and do think "WIndows users are Idiots". I know many
> people who use Windows who are anything but idiots, and many clueless
> Mac users.

You can't be an idiot if you're a systems tech working with XP or XP
pro software. There are too many setup screens and too much "behind
the screens" knowledge required to set it all up. But, the same is
true of Mac OS X in the sense that to truly understand and tinker with
the OS at the Terminal level requires, perhaps, more intelligence in
the computer sense than does Windows. You can still tinker with the OS
code in OS X and Windows shut out the average user or systems
programmer from doing that years ago. Many average users of OS X have
no desire to know anything about programming - just to have a simple
and easy to use computer and software set. The same may be true of
Windows, but more effort is required there just to be an average user.

After using the Mac for a time, I've learned what an amazing complex OS
it is that provides a very simple and easy to use user interface. A
lot of Mac programs are very simple and easy to install, use and
uninstall. But, as a non-programmer, I would say that OS X is far
superior to Windows in terms of flexibilty and potential. One of the
things that "burned me out" with Windows was the complexity involved in
setting up programs and hundreds of option screens for tinkering with
the system. The registry is a nightmare. Try completely uninstalling
a program on Windows vs. on a Mac. XP is not actually running on
MS-DOS anymore, although you can still run MS-DOS programs in a sort of
virtual environment. But, Windows is still closer to an OS built on
DOS with each successive version stacked on top of it than OS X is. OS
X has left behind the older, classic component of its earlier OS
versions and arrived at a state-of-the art new version. It will be
interesting to see how "post-modern" Vista will be.

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