Mac vs Windows vs Linux (Alex's thought's)

Hey guys, this mad kid's alone, and today I'm just going to be giving my unbiased opinion on Mac OS 10 vs. Windows Vista. So, I'm going to be comparing the two operating systems right now. To make this video, I'm using Linux, which is the third party. It's totally different than either one of the operating systems. I actually use Windows a lot, and I'd like the program for Windows as well as Mac. It's just that on my Mac mode...

So, basically, I've gathered a bunch of facts, and I'm just going to be comparing Windows Vista to the Mac operating system. First of all, the negative feedback towards Windows Vista, as in reports of it being bad or anything, I found is because people have been treating it badly. They've been doing stuff that maybe they shouldn't be doing on Windows Vista, or they've been trying stuff that shouldn't be.

Driver issues are noticeable. My camera and my Vaio (I think it's pronounced "VIA" or "VAR")... my webcam built into my Vaio didn't actually work on Windows Vista, and I had to find a driver. But the driver issues normally can be overcome, so that situation's a little better than Linux. Some security features are flawed and just don't make sense at all. For instance, any admin can change anyone else's password without the old password. That makes sense, but including its own. So, if you're an admin and you open a batch file that someone made, they can change your password, and then you can change it back.

Another nice feature, though, is that new users are by default non-admin. So that just makes it better, but sometimes it gets in the way. For instance, if you want to install something, you can't do anything about it because you're not currently running as an admin, and that's money. I'm sure sometimes this is good, but for me, it's not always there. Sometimes Windows crashes due to its own lack of driver support, and this is the main source of frustration in my opinion. I've seen other people get mad about this, so I just wouldn't worry about that.

The new Office package... it's not actually new anymore; I'm talking about Office 07. It didn't meet my expectations. Some tools have been removed, and it has an interface that seems to be a major source of frustration. Now, what I mean is on the menu bar, things have been moved around or replaced with some graphic or picture that you're not used to in the old Office, and then I recently upgraded to Office 07 on my Windows computer.

So Windows is a great development platform. I know like everyone I know, or everyone I know uses PC. That I now knows how to write some kind of program in Windows because Windows, there's so many different programming languages, and they have .NET. And that's cool because it's so easy. Like I've made a cool operating system emulator in .NET. So .NET, Windows is better for programming, I have to say that, and it's really compatible, and it has a larger market size.

The Mac operating system runs on Unix, which I actually love since I'm on the UNIX person, and this makes it smooth thinking. And yeah, of course, it's not really compatible to back; a lot of apps people write for Windows will run on the Mac. And if someone writes a program for Leopard, it sometimes doesn't run on Tiger.

As a small market share, the system only runs on Mac hardware. You can't get a PC at Walmart and install Mac OS 10 on it. You can install other operating systems that someone made in their spare time. You can install Windows, and you can install Linux, but you can't install the Mac operating system. The Mac operating system really only comes with Mac hardware unless you use something to break the rules about it, and I don't specifically try to do that.

In the Mac, equipment is overly priced compared to everything else. Like, you can buy a PC that's as good as a Mac Pro that would be five thousand dollars for two thousand five hundred dollars. It's just unbelievable how much more powerful you can get for the same amount of money in PC land. So the Mac hardware isn't that good. It's unconventional in many ways; like it doesn't do things the way other things do with you.

It's stable, but some things are dishonest, like Finder, for instance. If you go to “/” with the go-to feature, it will show you a list of all your drives. That's not true; Finder doesn't show you, however, the files that exist in “/”. I don't agree with this at all, and I think that the Mac just tries to trick you into being like it's training wheels. In my opinion, you have to take the training wheels off sometime or another.

The Mac is basically more user-friendly, so you can have an 80-year-old lady working in an office on a PC because she's been using it all her life. Let's say she's been... she has to use Mac; she'd be able to use that pretty fancy. Of course, if she has bad eyes or something, it's pretty high-res, but you can lower the resolution. In my opinion, the Mac is simpler to use. Of course, the dock drag-and-drop isn't drag-and-drop unless, of course, you're holding Command while dragging something off the dock.

But what are the odds people are going to know that, right? So the Mac romantic is a little tricky, but it's plenty user-friendly. Like, yeah, it's easier than Windows in a lot of ways, but if you're used to Windows, it would be better to use Windows. I don't recommend trying to switch.

Now, pairing all this to Linux, where do I even start? Linux is free! It runs on a lot of hardware and can be installed on practically any platform. There are so many different types of Linux; why not use them? I mean, it's not user-friendly; that's the only reason, but the GUIs that you can use, like GDM or KDE, are pretty user-friendly. I mean, there's drag-and-drop; there's double-click.

So, Linux, if you're a geek, or you're just cheap, or your small business, and you don't want to have to pay for Windows or something, you can always get Linux and figure it out. Linux is kind of driver-compatible; there's not necessarily going to be a driver for everything, but I made it work with all my printers. I've made it work with my keyboard, it with my mouse. It works with my Wacom tablet.

It works with pretty much all the hardware I have, and I have a new monitor, new keyboard, new mouse, new processor, new RAM, new disk. Yeah, but it's not a Mac, and it's not a PC; it's different. So if you use a PC, you should stick to a PC unless you really have a reason to get a Mac. If you use a Mac, stick to a Mac unless you have a reason to go to PC, and normally people want to go to a PC so they can run games and stuff. That's a good reason!

I mean, people don't like games for Mac; then you like just use the PC version. And then, of course, some people just get Windows just so they can have it. Whatever reason you want. Use whatever you want and take your own decision. If you disagree with this, argue with this comment, rate, subscribe, whatever.

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