Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: Swiss Army OS

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Swiss Army OS

An epiphanic moment

Very cute. I understand the intended message, and it's forced me to admit that I prefer a Swiss Army operating system. I guess PC'ers are just born mountain men who love a challenge, and want the tools to deal with it, and otherwise tinker away. Hooo-yaaaaaaa! Sleep tight MACers.

Rodger the Real King of France 7/24/2010 08:13:00 AM 21 Comments

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21 comments:

An ignorant dickweed said...: I guess the tools for a linux operating system would be a keyboard and a mouse.; 7/24/10, 8:31 AM
Steve In Tulsa said...: The tool for Linux would be a butter knife.; 7/24/10, 9:12 AM
BlogDog said...: Boy howdy! Look at that crap load of tools you need to keep your Windows computer running.; 7/24/10, 10:37 AM
An ignorant dickweed said...: Shhhh, Some people prefer to make their life simpler more efficient, to actually get work done with the tools they have. Let Roger think that having problems with his computer makes him more manly.; 7/24/10, 10:54 AM
Anonymous said...: If you like cute apps, buy an apple. If you want to run real application software, buy a pc. There I said it.

olds-mo-william; 7/24/10, 10:57 AM
Anonymous said...: Most Mac users have a collectivist-dependency mentality where someone else makes all their problems go away and in return they pay homage to that Dear Leader.

Most PC users like facing challenges on their own, diving in and finding their own solutions. They dislike dependence. The failure of one man or company will have no effect on their ability.

Annoyed White Male
(I'm fully aware that El Rushbo is a Mac user. I said "most". Even he says the reason he likes them is they work without his having to think about them much.); 7/24/10, 11:27 AM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: I dunno if it's that complicated. I think they just like stuff that works pretty well, on a consistent basis, and are willing to pay a hefty premium for that simplicity.

My wife would prolly love the MAC because she just wants to do simple stuff, without any adventure. As for me, not a day goes by that I don't feel the thrill of victory over my PC. And since my testicles still have a bucket list, I need other outlets.; 7/24/10, 12:56 PM
An ignorant dickweed said...: When you say "PC", you do know there are many operating systems that can run on the PC hardware.

Annoyed White Male, very arrogant statement, sounds exactly like something a MAC owner would say. Most PC owners run Windows, which depends on Microsoft and most Windows users are always complaining that their PC is running slow and they need someone to fix it for them, very rarely do they fix it themselves. They wait for problems and then complain.

The biggest problem with any operating system isn't the operating system, but the device that sits in the chair in front of the computer.; 7/24/10, 1:52 PM
DougM said...: If you actually used a Mac, you'd understand that the smaller tool reflects the relative need for repairs, not the system's flexibility. Besides, it's more like a magic wand, a vaccine, or a prophylactic than a toolbox. It also plugs directly into the brain's pleasure center.; 7/24/10, 3:17 PM
Juice said...: This topic baits 'em every time it's tried here. I *heart* these conversations. Never gets old. Thanks Rodger! :]; 7/24/10, 4:14 PM
Anonymous said...: Apple is now number one for a good reason. If you're the type of guy that gets 'em off tinkering with your computer....get a PC. If you just enjoy the pleasure of sitting down to a reliable well designed piece of technology...get a MAC. Mine's nine years old....not a burp!
Ad rem...; 7/24/10, 4:49 PM
Anonymous said...: This one has to remain Anonymous.

We were bought by Dell. Michele Dell himself comes to 'meet and greet' his new acquisition. We don't invite him over to our engineering room because we ALL use Macs though our product targets PC admin types. (We run Windows in a window under vmware when we need to). Every engineer can choose any system they want so it's not like we are forced to be a mac shop.

Most of us are the 20+ years of hardware/software engineering UNIX types and have hacked PC hardware with the best of them. (my first IBM PC ran CP/M when DOS or CP/M was an option) We all have PCs around the house. It's not about that. It's about getting crap done in a secure system in a timely manner. Having a real (UNIX) operating system under the Macs hood makes all the difference in the world to our productivity.

Dell issued us all shiny new Dell Laptops. They get used to check email on the internal network and run some outlook thing.. We mostly ignore them unless we have to do something internal. The hardware *is* nice. It's the software that slows us down.

And that's the facts. I love ya Rog, but but sometimes people have swiss army knives because their crap is always breaking. If I want to screw around with the computer I might drag out the PC. If I need to put food on the table by *using* the computer to get work done, then the mac wins every time for me.; 7/24/10, 5:58 PM
Anonymous said...: http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i177/emperorjim/Startrek-BSoD.gif; 7/24/10, 9:49 PM
pdwalker said...: Juice! +1!! *lol*

(As a PC and Mac user, they both have their places - live and let live, I say); 7/24/10, 10:40 PM
Anonymous said...: Owned both macs and PC's, getting non-apple hardware to work on the macs was a huge PITA. I ended up giving my Macs away to the local charity for recycling.

My PC run slow? Not a chance brother! A lean and mean machine. PC's run slow when people click on junk they should not which is hardly the fault of the OS. If malware providers decided to target mac users you would see the same issue but why waste time targeting a 5% market share?

Also run Ubuntu on a laptop, so far it will do anything a Win PC will do aside from running protected DVD's which is a restriction imposed by Hollywood.; 7/25/10, 9:17 AM
BobG said...: For our next "discussion", we'll decide which is better, the 9mm or the .45 ACP...; 7/25/10, 10:56 AM
Kristophr said...: Or discuss which calibre to use on a charging bear.; 7/25/10, 12:13 PM
An ignorant dickweed said...: Anonumous, get the "Restricted extras" package.
Also join http://ubuntuforums.org/; 7/25/10, 1:09 PM
Timbeaux said...: I told myself I would never do it, but I've had my Mac for about a month now and I don't think I'll ever go back. It takes a little getting used to, and I still have to run windows on a virtual machine to do work with Excel (which is vastly superior to Numbers from what I can tell so far), but it's all pretty easy.; 7/25/10, 2:50 PM
Timbeaux said...: I told myself I would never do it, but I've had my Mac for about a month now and I don't think I'll ever go back. It takes a little getting used to, and I still have to run windows on a virtual machine to do work with Excel (which is vastly superior to Numbers from what I can tell so far), but it's all pretty easy.; 7/25/10, 2:50 PM
Timbeaux said...: I told myself I would never do it, but I've had my Mac for about a month now and I don't think I'll ever go back. It takes a little getting used to, and I still have to run windows on a virtual machine to do work with Excel (which is vastly superior to Numbers from what I can tell so far), but it's all pretty easy.; 7/25/10, 2:50 PM

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Swiss Army OS

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