Comments on: Working with Windows and Linux, playing with the Mac

Google Insights data suggests that we enjoy our Macs for more than we enjoy Windows and Linux.

[ferretboy88]

I own all different types of computers and I like to use my windows desktop the best and my linux laptop a choice 2nd.

[Mr. Dee]

This is the most disturbing post you have done to date. Accept Matt, Windows will always be here, it will always dominate, its easy to use, its not expensive like Macs and it does all that Macs do and more. Accept it that Linux is a fad, a marketing tool used by IT departments to get a better price on Windows Licensing in negotiations because they prefer Windows. Your views are just so insignificant, you are resorting to unreliable trends by a Microsoft competitor who I am sure would like to see everyone stop using Microsoft.

[tkejlboom]

Why would someone search for "Linux"? Why would a Mac user search for "Apple"? What would either have to do with having fun? Do you only have fun on the weekends? If you hate your job so much, can I have it?

[Papa Chango]

Trend? You've got to be kidding.
More fun? I dual boot and use WINE to play games on XP because that's where the games are at the present. Windows.

I presume you mean usability instead of fun, but often that's personal taste. I hate XP blue, VIsta black, Ubuntu brown and Apple round, but as long as "I" find something usable (or have possibility to modify it) to my tastes, then that's what is the best. Compiz/Fusion is to some people's taste and not to others.

What the Linux ecosystem has to learn to do is not 'dummify' good programs but learn how to make the 10-20 most commons uses/commands as easy as possible in each program.

You want fun? Go spin a Beryl eye candied distro. You want fun? Go play some games.
Games is the big deal breaker with many people and the most common reason given for Linux/Win dual boots.

I've rarely seen someone try so hard to justify their own choice.
Miguel really must have piqued you Mac lovin open saucers, its been over the top justification since then.
I remember my cousin trying to justify his overly expensive and cool (at the moment) Sergio Valente jeans. It was about the cut, the material and the stitching...instead of saying that it made me feel cool/in/accepted.
I'm not gonna go into my wife's shoe excuses because you all sound the same.

[shevaberg]

another article brought to you by the marketing and pr departments of apple... how much did they pay you to write this...

Every single blog or semi newsworthy article today is how perfect apple is.... and then not got into details.... and when you try and argue the point they cry like a bunch of 2 year olds....

[FellowConspirator]

There's considerably more evidence that OS X is the environment that people use because they want to, and Windows is the environment they use because they have to, this simply isn't it. That conclusion can be drawn far more concretely based on sales reports. Demographically, Macs sell primarily to home users, schools, and a loosely-defined group called "creative professionals", and systems shipping pre-installed with Windows dominate corporate sales by a very wide margin. Linux is the odd-man-out in that sales don't reflect use in any meaningful manner, but rather reflect prevailing IT practices in pursuing third-party support agreements. Linux dominates the markets where it is marketed, but that's a tautology - the same can be legitimately said of Windows and OS X as well.

That the rate of adoption of OS X is increasing so quickly in the home environment does support that Mac OS X is what people want, but far more importantly, it means that the platform (be it OS X, Windows, or Linux) is becoming less relevant to users. Both OS X and Windows satisfy the requirements of the consumer acceptably and interoperate tolerably - so which you choose matters less. That benefits Linux too since desktop distributions are now sufficiently equivalent as to lower the cost of going that route, and that platform is the product of the user base, rather than corporate initiative.

[kelmon]

Agreed. I only use Windows at work due to necessity imposed by the company. It is not a "fun" experience and I curse the system much like pretty much everyone else. At home I use a Mac and I don't have the urge to throw the computer out the window.

I often feel that Windows was developed by people who don't like their customers very much.

[igorz07]

So ,,, you seem to be saying that internet searches are somehow relevant to computer market share??? Er, not so much. Does the term "stupid" mean anything to you?

[carolinson]

Take the drudgery out of bad stats.

[ianjude000]

ok ,i want a mac