Originally Posted by
Gorman
Hey Genki, did you know Macs are cheaper than PCs?
pffttfcchahaaaahahaaaaa
25% appletax ftw.
(yes I have decided to troll because no one replied to my previous post. I guess being objectively correct is just not worth attempting to dispute)
(also did you hear the one about Macs being good for creative people? pfffttchaahahahaha)
(also, > mfw people are arguing hardware and not OS. Do they realise I can run OSX on my PC and W7 on my Mac and Linux on my iPhone? )
(also, the OP image really sums it up. OSX and Windows users really love hardware, and not their OS. Where as Linux users tend to love the OS, and not care too much about the hardware. The image is actually a really great example, as it shows both the OSX and Windows users with huge rigs, where as the Linux user has a small simple laptop doing amazing things. Another example is the CR-48, simple hardware (with noteable differences), but the focus is on OS)
Indeed my brother.
It all comes down to philosophy of business. We both know that Windows and OSX come from a heavily materialistic and commercial background. They are symbols of economic power, monopolies and precursors of capitalism itself. And users tend to get absorbed into that mindset, where everything is marketing and fiction, their truths no longer resemble the Reality, and the prices will never be fair because they hold economic monopolies in their own ways - and have been sued numerous times by governments for that same reason, btw.
Thats where Linux stand out, philosophically speaking. It comes from a humble background, where the main idea is freedom, sharing, having a caring community, being free of cost while keeping all the versatility intact, and so forth... Something similar to the concept of the Internet freedom itself.
You are right about the machines. Linux users do tend to have less powerful machines because they know they don't need more as they can still do more by having less than most people. I mean, this isn't just chit chat. It is a fact that a lot of Linux distributions will run fine on very old machines, while still offering support for a lot of modern software, something you can't really say about old Windows and OSX versions. An example of that is Puppy Linux, an amazing little distribution that can do miracles on old machines and still boot faster than most powerful machines running Windows and OSX. hehe.
Anyway, to sum it up. Nowadays this materialistic view is all about having the reputation of the most "shiny and glossy machine, that is sexy on the design", while ignoring the price vs specs vs functionality ratio.
And thats a problem in our society, IMO, as its a sad thing that we keep judging stuff by the looks, not by the essence...
Last edited by GenkiSudo; Dec 13, 2010 at 05:50 PM.