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An Interesting Situation (Pick an OS)

Posted: January 17, 2005 @ 03:50 PM EST | Filed Under: Operating Systems

So me and the fellow at Milk Basilica.com were having a chat, and stumbled upon the discussion of OSes. So, me being me and both of us being geeks, presented the following: if a gun was poinited to your head and you were told to choose an OS, what would it be? Now my reply was “mac, maybe,” however, his was for Windows. So, that being said, I ‘fessed up and told him the reason behind my maybe was due to Windows.

Now let’s review: two geeks said if they had a gun pointed to their head and they were told to choose an OS, they would possibly choose Windows. Not Linux, as most would expect, and not a resounding vote for Mac either.

Hm.

So this puts me in a ponderous state. I’m not too sure why either of us picked Windows. For me, it might be because I grew up on it. However, I also grew up on Mac, probably moreso than Windows, and I’m not necessarily more comfortable with Windows than with Mac, and he said he was more comfortable with Linux than with Windows (Gentoo being his primary OS). So… this is odd. I’m off to ponder this and talk more…