Linux ftw. Mac's suck unless you hang out in coffee shops trying to be seen. PC's are for ignorant people that need shortcuts on a desktop to operate anything.
Hey, hey, hey... I'm far from ignorant (at least with computers) and voluntarily use Windows 7 at home, and don't see myself using anything else in the foreseeable future. Why? For one, every bit of hardware has Windows driver support. More and more manufacturers are offering Linux drivers, but I'd simply rather not worry about it. I like to play games. Linux and/or Wine can probably play a bit, but again -- why worry about it when I don't have to? When I want software, I like choices, and quite frankly Windows has a shitton more options. Also, to install I simply double-click an installer. I don't need to add repositories, or find dependencies, or try to get it to work with my particular build of Linux, or compile it... I click, and it installs. Text and video displays better in Windows. People argue it's not secure, and bloated, and crashes, blah blah blah. Mine stays up for days/weeks/months at a time and is only restarted for required updates...never an issue. Resource management is no longer really an issue, and I can leave the PC up for months without any noticeable performance degradation. With how cheap RAM is, why should I care if Windows uses a few hundred more MB than Linux? It's worth it, IMO, to not have to deal with the bullshit with Linux.
I use Linux on a daily basis as well, but it's delegated for server use. I'd only use Linux for server use. I don't have any stability issues with Windows (maybe I'm just lucky?) but Linux is a bit more stripped down and it just makes sense that it'd be more stable... I use it as a LAMP server, mail server, IRC-bouncer, web-proxy, SFTP server, and seedbox. Since it's merely a server and not used for anything else, I don't care about putting in the extra effort to set it all up. Although I believe MS has really stepped up the security on Windows, there's still the fact that more componenets = more potential vulnerabilities. I don't run a GUI on it and only access through SSH. It's an admittedly underpowered box (dual core 2.0ghz, 2gb ram, 500gb hdd space, 100/100mbps internet connection
), but handles the job well using Linux. I like that all your application updates can be handled at once without having separate notifications telling you "zomg there's an update," and I like that customizations are unlimited, but honestly when I get home from work I don't feel like fucking with it and prefer something that works without issue right out the box.
I haven't used Mac enough to bash it or support it but from my limited experience I can't see what the big draw is. I guess if you're a complete computer novice it's good, but with 90+ percent of the world using Windows you pretty much have to know Windows anyway. A vast majority of enterprises use Windows, so Mac experience really isn't helpful at a job.
Nothing wrong with preferring one or the other. I only get annoyed by fucks that preach about how ___ OS is the ONLY option and everything else is trash. They all have their pros and cons. Windows fits the home use for me, and Linux is my choice for hands-free web/media serving. I haven't really found a place for Mac
had leopard running on my toshiba laptop. meh, not my cup of tea. might as well just run linux. 
afford a sweet apple, overpriced POS imo.
In case you missed it I was just being a troll there.
I set up an OS X partition on my PC a year or so ago. Just was trying to get more familiar with it and see what the big deal was. I didn't see anything that amazing and IMO navigating it was a bit confusing. Most likely because I've been using Windows all my life. I didn't see anything it did better than Windows, so eventually deleted that partition to load more pr0nz.
Definitely overpriced.
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