Windows Or OSX?

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I find OSX a bit "Computing for those that don't want to be computing". It's a nice, and I could live with it if I had to, but I do prefer WinXP (with the eyecandy switched off).

I hate eye candy... I want just enough gui to do the job in hand :-)

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Karlos wrote:
I regularly use AmigaOS, Win2K and OSX 10.3

There's plenty to admire and dislike about all of them. OSX, IMHO is great for no hassle home computing, but alas at work it's largely a pain in the bum. I have to spend half my time in the terminal to get anything useful done.

Win2K, is of course the spawn of that great bane of computer software, MS. Despite this I find it pretty useful. Of course it can be a total pain in the backside too, but so can OSX or AmigaOS.

AmigaOS, on the whole suits me down to the ground. Only the lack of applications is the drawback for me. In terms of what an OS should feel like, to me it is perfect - the balance between ease of use and flexibility is just right.

Karlos expressed my views better than I did :-D

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FastRobPlus wrote:
>>You can even print for free from Macs (from XP it costs 5 cents per page)

That's strange!  My guess is the university must have an app that tracks print jobs and chrages back the students, but the app is not avilable on the Mac so they waive tha charge?!?

I wonder if you could emulate a Mac on the PC and print from the emulation to avoid a charge?

PearPC :-D

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HopperJF wrote:

itix wrote:
I'd choose Windows. OS X is slow and software support is inadequate. OS X GUI design is just a horror.

Yeah because tellytubbies XP is much better!  :roflmao:

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You can switch tellytubby mode off on XP... you can't on OSX :-(

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HopperJF wrote:

bloodline wrote:

HopperJF wrote:

itix wrote:
I'd choose Windows. OS X is slow and software support is inadequate. OS X GUI design is just a horror.

Yeah because tellytubbies XP is much better!  :roflmao:

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You can switch tellytubby mode off on XP... you can't on OSX :-(

Wronnng  :lol:

Then tell me how, because OSX is really annoying.

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HopperJF wrote:

bloodline wrote:

HopperJF wrote:

bloodline wrote:

HopperJF wrote:

itix wrote:
I'd choose Windows. OS X is slow and software support is inadequate. OS X GUI design is just a horror.

Yeah because tellytubbies XP is much better!  :roflmao:

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You can switch tellytubby mode off on XP... you can't on OSX :-(

Wronnng  :lol:

Then tell me how, because OSX is really annoying.

How is it more annoying than Windows???

Because I don't like eye candy... I already said...

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Turn that around to Windows and I know exactly how you feel! To be honest I dislike the idea of rebooting the OS every time you change a frigging simple setting.. which is why OSX hardly ever needs to be rebooted :-)

Be careful when comparing MacOS and Windows. In the above statement it looks like you've tried to compare MacOS X with Windows98... now it would be equally unfair to compare MacOS 9 with WindowsXP :-)

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I would like to add, One thing I hate, detest, wouldn't even shake a sock at about windows is the "Registry"... I just don't get the point!

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Star69 wrote:

bloodline wrote:
I would like to add, One thing I hate, detest, wouldn't even shake a sock at about windows is the "Registry"... I just don't get the point!

the bane of windows.

Exactly, I will defend Windows (the NT derivatives at least) as it has a hard job to do and it does it well... but why on earth they couldn't have come up with something better than "The Registry" I'll never know.