Mac or PC?

Mac or PC?

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Mac for professional work, PC for play, Linux for server, BSD for router.

Stupid questions thread this is not.

I honestly can't choose. I've been using Windows all my live and have literally never had a good experience with it. I'm thinking of switching to Mac but then again it could just be 'grass is greener' syndrome.
Maybe computers in general just suck right now and all I can do is deal with it.

i use both

BSD and Linux ARE PC. Windows computer is WC.

Hipster terrorist or cuddly friendly bro?

CIA linux

>Linux
even worse choice than Windows, desu

Linux is the least user-friendly thing ever to exist.

I like it rough

PC, cuz I ain't gay nigga

Mac is for development, Linux for servers and Windows is for testing sites in IE and Edge.

user-friendliness < functionality

for enthusiasts at least.

What am I looking for, penis to pop out of her shorts?

those commercials always bugged me. they made PC's out to be the square, not fun business things, even though the primary difference between what you can do on both platforms is GAYMES, pc's have em and macs don't. so why is PC the buttoned up serious guy?

By popularity, Windows machine is commonly refered as a PC.

Windows for work and gaming (obvs), macOS for pretty much everything else.

No

>Mac
+ muh design
+ muh ecosystem
+ muh walled garden
+ muh apple care
: muh hardware
- muh lack of control or personalization
- muh Apple's way or the high way
- muh money
- muh weird fucking user interface and counter-intuitive gestures

>Windows
+ muh games
+ muh modularity
+ muh customization
+ muh work programs
+ muh logical interface
- muh shitty design
- muh forced updates
- muh botnet

sauce?

macOS because windows 10 is terrible

pc with gnome
it's so comfy

linux is a kernel
do you really expect a low level program to be user friendly? and for what purpose?

Windows has:
>No drivers from start
>you wait 5 second for installing mouse/keyboard
>cannot change wallpaper in win7 for netbooks
>cannot shut down computer in win8
>cannot open selected file with spacebar
>cannot plug in headphones in front jack without installing realtec botnet software
>ntfs is slow like shit
Lurk archive you faggots shilling this shit FOR YEARS. You just have baby duck syndrome

>babby can't wait literal seconds when using a mouse he'll use for hundreds of hours
What the fuck

PC for older people, boomers and such who don't know what their doing
Mac for cultured young people

Mac is a PC, just with a shitty proprietary Unix distro that can't do anything

most wintards don't actually install it, it came on their computer

but yeah, i was surprised how much of a pain it was to install windows on one of my dumb friends who fucked his laptop up. took at least 2 hours and i had to use my laptop to download 15 plus drivers just to get his shit in order. ubuntu would have taken 10 minutes to install

>Linux for server

At least it works
I still haven't found a single package manager that wouldn't fail to compile 99% of packages

the language is expired, but in the day PC's were all ibm compatible DOS windows computers. macs made the switch to the same architecture but in my mind they are not PC's. obviously they are 'personal computers' but even Apple doesn't call their shit PC's still

>installing windows is a pain in the ass
>insert disc
>choose drive to install windows to
>install it in 10 minutes
>boot
>enter your desired name and password
>log in
>windows searches and installs 99% of drivers automatically
>install gpu drivers
>????
>profit
All this takes 30 minutes at most if your PC isn't from prehistoric era

Occasionally, I still think of them as IBMs rather than PCs.

>- muh shitty design

I like Windows' design better, because it's more heterosexual (everything is straight and square, not ambiguously rounded).

my story didn't go like that. no wifi, no ethernet, stuck in 800x600... literally would not have been able to complete the install if I didn't have another computer on hand. you're right though, his laptop was kinda old, but not ancient by any means.

same deal with my current laptop. i ahve 2 hard drives (one in optical bay) you'll have to take my word, but installing Linux was WAY easier and faster than installing windows 7 (had to do the same hoop jumping with drivers) but in that case it was Windows 7 and my laptop is pretty new so it's a little more excusable

Literally this. I've been a windows fag for 20 years and the biggest problem I had was missing network drivers. Only once. I used hundreds of different computers and did dozens of fresh installations.
I don't understand the retards here. Windows is literally the easiest OS to install and use. It's harder than ever for regular user to fuck up something in it.

same, it's fucking weird that IBM doesn't even make pc's now

i promise you it's easier to install Ubuntu than Windows, and I've been a Winfag since 3.11

not even hating on Windows, I use Windows everyday I just use it as a video game console now whereas I use Linux for the internet and shit because it's safer and faster

They don't call them PCs because "macs" are a marketing trick. They created the illusion that their PCs are something from another planet, not just an ordinary PC.

Even though they have ordinary PC parts. It's all about faggotry.

Installing Linux easier, what's hard is getting anything to run on it without updating thousands of packages that may or may not fuck up your installation permanently
Not only that several of those updates will fail thanks to the fact that all the package managers are pieces of shit so the only way to install stuff is through pure trial and error, because there is no help on the internet
Why do you think you never see GNU/Linux users actually do anything?
They only rice their desktop and say "lol xD I'm so different because I use FOSS xDD D"

>Mac for professional work
what are you? a social media marketer?

PC because I am not one to fall for the trap of an overpriced Mac.

Look me in the eye and tell me you would rather use this than macOS

>Even though they have ordinary PC parts
that's the thing, back in the day when the terminology came out, they didn't. there were IBM compatible computers (PC's) and macs. you could not put MS DOS or Windows on a mac back then.

now they have the same architecture, but the terminology remains for greybushes like myself

i said Ubuntu not Linux. Ubuntu is as easy to use as Macos or windows. the freetards who use tiling wm's and rice and shit are a different story. It's not 1999 and Linux isn't hard. don't be fooled by Sup Forums memes like it takes computer experts to use Linux.

>i said Ubuntu not Linux

well yeah, he starts talking about ricing and everything breaking with updates... that's not an Ubuntu problem. only people who use l337 distros have these problems.

Ubuntu is a GNU/Linux distro you idiot
Also Ubuntu doesn't break with updates because it has no updates
Ubuntu is a piece of shit even TempleOS could beat up

>obviously they are 'personal computers' but even Apple doesn't call their shit PC's still

>bowing to marketing gimmicks

Bet you write iCloud and iPhone too

where did I say Ubuntu isn't linux? idiot? and btw, you think it's a piece of shit then yu might as well be a Windows or Mac guy because it is BY FAR the best distribution of linux and over 60 percent of all machines running linux are running Ubuntu

sometimes I wish computers never got good enough to play videos, brought a bunch of illiterate drooling TV retards like yourself online

Are you retarded?

Why do you talk if you have no clue what you are talking about?

...

you're too young to remember why people don't call macs PC's, it's okay I tried to explain it to you but it's probably not gonna happen unless you up your reading comprehension. get to bed, school starts up soon and you need to fix your sleep schedule

>what's hard is getting anything to run on it without updating thousands of packages that may or may not fuck up your installation permanently
Then you a fucking normal distribution and not some rolling release arch meme.

Use debian stable if that is your problem...

>where did I say Ubuntu isn't linux?
>i said Ubuntu not Linux
>i said Ubuntu not Linux
>i said Ubuntu not Linux

yeah read the whole post I definitely call it linux. but I was specifically referring to UBUNTU but you were talking about gentoo or arch or one of the 'hard' distros. why are there so many idiots in this thread?

They're all the same you fucking retard, except they come packed with different levels of shit
Ubuntu is as much of a botnet as windows you dingaling

Only rural retards use windows. All the smart city people use osx

I have an asus crossfire iv formula, phenom ii x6 and hd7950. Older computer, but not from the prehistoric era.

>installing windows
>has to restart during installation
>installs and boots
>1024x768 resolution
>16:9 23" screen
>no network card drivers
>need a second computer to install Windows
>takes over an hour

Then on the same machine:
>installing Debian
>reboots
>boots into a functional system with internet
>less than 30 minutes

I completely removed Windows from the HDD, I barely used it and I only had it for games, but all the games I play I can play on GNU/Linux so year of the GNU desktop is here.

sorry to bust your bubble buddy, I know you spent a fortune on the Mac Experience, but contrary to the what Apple sold you their Intel CPUs are executing the same instructions and are not assembled by virgin girls hands

Sorry son, but you had a broken HDD

>he still calls it "osx"
darling...

oh well, it's faster than Windows and looks nicer. I primarily use a computer for surfing the internet, but I promise you when I build my gaming computer it will run windows 10.

my reasons for using Ubuntu are not political or paranoid, it's simply faster, safer and comfier for what I do on the computer (go on the internet)

i have never owned an Apple product in my life, where did you get the impression that I use a mac? I use Windows 7 and Linux 50/50, windows 7 for games and music production and linux for basically everything else i do

>windows 10

What?

It's officially called OSX retard.

It's called macOS you pleb.

Mac is PC retard

>Mac for professional work

Unless you're a graphic designer or some shit, PC is FAR superior to Mac in almost all cases.

I work in finance and I can tell you almost nobody in this industry uses Mac.

What extra functionality does linux have vs windows?

yeah what's a better OS for a gaming computer than Windows 10? Why would I gimp myself if the primary purpose of the computer is to play video games? Computers are tools

>I use Windows 7 and Linux 50/50, windows 7 for games and music production

>these are the people calling uu underage and trying to lecture you what is mac

They rebranded it to macOS you dumbfuck.

depending on your definition and use cases

>freedom of choice
>better performance, less bloat and telemetry
>containers
>package managers
>better file systems
>better cli

if you are concerned about a desktop facebook machine, it is free as in free beer for starters

Loadable kernel modules
Jails and containers
Kernel code is free and available for modifications
People tend to implement experimental network protocols or experimental file systems, experimental scheduling algorithms etc on Linux first, meaning that Linux is always first to the mill for these technologies

ok, i get that you came from reddit and think you're supposed to be mean and edgy to fit in, but I promise you that in the past PC meant IBM compatible, and in the past macs were NOT IBM compatible. I'm not trolling you, I'm trying to shed some light on why people don't really call macs PC's despite the fact they are "personal computers". The original macs were NOT ibm compatible. So people took to calling IBM compatible computers "PC's" and Apple computers that used the macintosh os "Macs". This is semantics. Nobody called Amigas "PC's" either, because they were not IBM compatible. This is just the truth, I am not making it up. You have to be fucking YOUNG to not know this. There is nothing wrong with that. I wish I were still young. I don't expect you to know this shit because you weren't alive.

also, when Apple came out with these "I'm a Mac" ads, macs were already using the same architecture as wintel pcs. This is because everyone already called PC's and Macs those names.

Also, you might not know this either, but IBM used to make personal computers, they were the guys who made Thinkpads, you ever see those threads on Sup Forums? cool talking with you, don't let the bed bugs bite

mac is a porn actor

mac every day son because i'm not a windows NERD.

>>install it in 10 minutes
literary a lie
windows (xp;7) takes forever to install unless its some """lite""" version by some 1337haxxx0r
and then you most likely have no drivers and have to wait even more because windows updates and a few more restarts

>>installing gnu/linux is a pain in the ass
>>insert disc
>>choose drive to install gnu/linux to
>>install it in 10 minutes
>>boot
>>enter your name and password
>>log in
>>gnu/linux searches and installs 99% of drivers automatically
>>install gpu drivers
>>????
>>profit
>All this takes 30 minutes at most even if your PC is from prehistoric era
ftfy

>Walled garden
WAT Nigga?

+ you can testdrive on live cd/usb

>tfw a cummulative windows auto update hits on a tuesday morning and you don't work until lunch

>please don't turn off your computer
>we are getting things ready for you

>i promise you it's easier to install Ubuntu than Windows
what exactly is easier?
windows install literally press next button, you don't even need to know how to burn installation image to USB, if you download windows 10 tool from microsoft site it will burn it automatically, the only hard process is to boot from usb

Windows for Gaming and Bullshit. Linux for when Windows BSODed itself to death.

It's simple.

Do you use macOS as your main system, and intend to use all the features that Apple computers have? Then that.

Otherwise, PC. You can hackintosh to a point where it is more stable than some of the currently popular linux distros.

>throw in le reddit insult

only apple semen slurpers want to differentiate, I understand you want to be a special snowflake by association to a special snowflake hardware, but I'm afraid it is all marketing put in your head by shills. You are the autistest version of a GNU/Linux fag

>>please don't turn off your computer
>>we are getting things ready for you
then...
>something happened :(

This shit is eye cancer.

yeah that would sting a little if I ever owned a mac. and you're right, the fact that macs were not IBM PC compatible until 2005 is all marketing dude

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Windows was never able to install in 10 minutes when it came on discs.
I haven't tried 8 or 10, but up to 7, there was no drivers with the OS.
I got a thinkpad which was much the official microsoft laptop until they started to make their own tablets.
Something as simple as downloading the ISO is a pain too.
There is no official way to get the OS, I had to find a german mirror of digital river.
After I have found the right version (Wihout any documentation to tell you what the hell the difference is), I used the code on the back of the machine, and there was no fucking drivers.
No ethernet, no wifi, no graphics driver, the touchpad and trackpoint didn't work properly, it was a mess.
The usb ports were downgraded to usb 1.1 or something.
And when you need other computers in order to get it to work, I would say it is poor support.

This guy knows what's up.
Sir, I salute you.

>checks calendar

justin long is not a porn star

Justin long is a porn star

you'll never know how good it feels to be stuck in the 90's

youtu.be/NVAmnV65_zw
After seeing this you'll realise Mac users are cucks. They us it because they like being fucked in the ass

Unless you're using something autistic like gentoo, most package managers don't compile packages, they download precompiled binaries

>>No drivers from start
>>you wait 5 second for installing mouse/keyboard
>>cannot change wallpaper in win7 for netbooks
>>cannot shut down computer in win8
>>cannot plug in headphones in front jack without installing realtec botnet software
>>ntfs is slow like shit