I agree. I rarely have Windows go wrong - except when it's caused by me doing something silly that I know is going to overload my poor processor. I'm always surprised when colleagues randomly manage to corrupt files and crash their machines.
That said, I do find Windows often does "odd things" that I just can't explain.
I definitely have to reboot XP far less than I ever used to.
My experience of Macs is actually rather negative. Other than not being able to work out how the hell to do things I want to do the one version I've used had horrible rendering issues with Firefox and IE.
I have to say the computer I have the least problems with is my trusty Linux box. And generally when something does go wrong it's something I can work out how it went wrong (or again it's something I made it do) and so I can fix it or prevent it.
IE is a Microsoft program and is completely shite on the Mac. The Mac Firefox was also very poor last time I used it (1.1 or so) -- I understand it's improved but the password management was so badly designed when I used it that I am not inclined to try again. They are both examples of 'non-Mac-like' programs, which are rare on the Mac.
I use Camino; others like Safari or OmniWeb. There is no shortage of good Mac browsers.
On the 'not being able to work out how to do things I want to do', that's not actually a criticism of the Mac, is it?
The reasons why I was using IE and Firefox was that I couldn't work out how to find other programs and I found it a bitch to install anything on the Mac. Maybe I didn't persevere (sp?) long enough. It was also frustrating knowing that OS X is based on a *nix style OS and yet I couldn't even find a shell. I found the Mac incredibly counter-intuitive - and this is from someone who has used a range of Linux and Unix machines and tends to use non-standard window managers for Linux. I normally love things that are a little different to use. I was so excited to be able to try out a Mac but it really let me down. So yes, not being able to work out how to do things is a criticism, because Linux seems ten times easier despite being supposedly less user friendly.
I love Mac hardware though. I'd love to get myself a Mac Mini. Of course, the first thing I'd do would be to put the Mac version of Ubuntu on it.
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That said, I do find Windows often does "odd things" that I just can't explain.
I definitely have to reboot XP far less than I ever used to.
My experience of Macs is actually rather negative. Other than not being able to work out how the hell to do things I want to do the one version I've used had horrible rendering issues with Firefox and IE.
I have to say the computer I have the least problems with is my trusty Linux box. And generally when something does go wrong it's something I can work out how it went wrong (or again it's something I made it do) and so I can fix it or prevent it.
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I use Camino; others like Safari or OmniWeb. There is no shortage of good Mac browsers.
On the 'not being able to work out how to do things I want to do', that's not actually a criticism of the Mac, is it?
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I love Mac hardware though. I'd love to get myself a Mac Mini. Of course, the first thing I'd do would be to put the Mac version of Ubuntu on it.