Mac users are liberals, Windows users are conservatives. What does that make Linux Users?
Posted on: April 26, 2011 - 10:18pm
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Mac users are liberals, Windows users are conservatives. What does that make Linux Users?
Here's a non-scientific survey correlating aspects of Mac users and PC users. It's kind of interesting...
Which are you?
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I'm a conservative with windows
Linux are independents?
But am forced to use an iPod in other parts of my life, much to my annoyance. I have an intense dislike for overbearing proprietary hardware/software and like things to be as simple as possible. I prefer my HP Mini to an iPad.
Having read the list, my preferences are all over the place but there were a few interesting points in there. I guess you'd expect some of these results. All designers and photographers, artists and so forth go with Mac.
P.S. My brother is law is a Linux monkey and he's an old-school DIY computer geek. He's also a fundamentalist christian minister of more than usually literal interpretation.
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It's because I'm a liberal that I don't like Mac. The study didn't get my vote. I like Bill Gates, I use Microsoft on a PC.
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Bill Gates is an Atheist, and a philanthropists, but his technical insight and programming skills, while better than a person 'off-the-street', are woefully inadequate.
Having worked with both systems most of my working life, I will take the Mac any day over Windows.
I recently had to work with a Linux system, which I respect as a worthy effort, but after many frustrations, I installed Windows 7, 64 bit, on what had been my CentOS Linux box. I use it essentially for testing and debugging Windows apps, and testing Web-sites and Web-Apps under Internet Explorer. I had been running VMWare to test under various Windows OS's on Virtual Machines. Running the Windows version of VMWare on top of W7 works just as well, and I have less trouble file-sharing with my Macs than I had under Linux.
I hate IE. It still does enough things differently in its 'JScript' to be responsible for significant extra effort. WHY???
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I use windows 7. I haven't really spent much time with other(non windows) operating systems.
I have been a Linux user since 1996 which means I am neither a liberal or a conservative. I am free and perhaps an anarchist. Before Linux I used OS/2. I do not like to fund corporate monopolies that attempt to control our actions and lives.
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I'm a "Southpark Republican" if you are familiar with that.
Anyways, I obviously like Linux, particularly Debian-flavored distros: Ubuntu, Xandros, Knoppix, LinuxMint, etc.
Thanks for commenting.
“Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.”
There are certainly more technically talented people than Bill Gates...but he did have a vision and was shrewd in pulling it off, and therein lies his brilliance.
I feel your pain with IE... It seems like you have to write everything twice: once for IE and once for everything else...
I virtualize many OS's for testing: XP, Vista, 7, OSX, Android (techincally, it's Linux), iOS, among others. I set up a Windows 3.11 VM for kicks.
But I think my biggest headaches for "native" apps are Macs.
“Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.”
I agree that Bill Gates made some well-judged crucial business decisions early in his career. Not so sure of his later technical vision, he seems to have had a succession of mistaken assumptions about how computers and networking would develop, and really bombed out on how to market tablets...
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"Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings." - Sam Harris
The path to Truth lies via careful study of reality, not the dreams of our fallible minds - me
From the sublime to the ridiculous: Science -> Philosophy -> Theology
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You're right about networking and computers...
I did own a tablet had that specs similar to that of an iPad once... I actually liked it. But to do any "real"computing, I had to use a something with a little more power.
“Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.”
"You can't write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say sometimes, so you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whip cream."--Frank Zappa
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Sapient likes Bill Gates?! You shoudn't have done it! *cries* Judas!
Hey I tried reactos, what this does of me?
What if you use both Mac and Windows?
Does that mean that you're bi, and going to hell?
For a while there I was using all three, WTF does that make me?
Actually the only thing I have, occasionally, used Windows for, apart from simply testing stuff for work, is for some tasks that there wasn't a suitable Mac app for
Favorite oxymorons: Gospel Truth, Rational Supernaturalist, Business Ethics, Christian Morality
"Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings." - Sam Harris
The path to Truth lies via careful study of reality, not the dreams of our fallible minds - me
From the sublime to the ridiculous: Science -> Philosophy -> Theology
What does of you? Errr?