I couldn’t help touching that yes button.
Mac OS X all the way for me. No free beer, but proper punctuation. ;D
A Mac would ask you if you’d like an appletini…
Laughing my arse off!
Funny coming from the guy who constantly posts from his iPad.
I have a PC that runs on windows and I’m finally getting used to it … Sucking
I’ve been running Windows 7 for about two years now. It’s been surprisingly stable, compared to XP Pro. I’ve never had a blue screen of death, or other instability issues. I don’t get all the hate for it.
Compared to windows 8, 7 is a dream. We bought a machine for tHe brewery that came pre-installed with 8 and OMG it is a nightmare. It is a huge, clunky mess. Huge bugs that don’t have any fixes. And we tried to install 7 on the machine but you can’t get the particular drivers you need. They are forcing you to move onto windows 8.
Yeah, I’d love to hear the thought process behind Windows 8. They finally made a decent version with 7, why try to reinvent the wheel at that point?
Every time MS comes out with a decent OS, they release a new version that is largely an update to the previous version, but just works worse. 95 > ME, XP > Vista, 7 > 8. Glad my hardware (and software) should be stable long-term so I can stick with Win7 for a while.
What can I say? Use Linux and most of your pc woes will evaporate.
+1,000,000,000
Fedora took a little while to get used to, but I am so pleased with it now. Everything I can do in Windows can be done here. I will never look back!
Used Linux to recover a crashed PC. All data was recoverable, which was nice.
Not sure I’m moving to Linux, as I’m stuck in the mud. The learning curve wasn’t too extreme, but I don’t know about educating my wife, father, mother-in-law, children, etc. on a new OS.
Wait, does Linux “work” because you can’t run any programs on it, so there’s nothing to go wrong?
Microsoft is stuck in a mindset that makes it believe it is competing directly with Apple. Windows 8 is another step down that path. They are convinced everyone wants a gesture controlled interface on every platform but what works on your phone isn’t likely to be a good fit on your PC.
In the old days, we always said "never trust and even numbered DOS. Not much has changed except it’s more difficult to identify the crap now. You just have to figure out where you are in there product cycle.
Win95 (Okay)
Win-ME (crap)
Win98 (Pretty good)
WinXP (After the first year - Very good, very stable)
Vista (calling it crap is too kind)
Windows 7 (good OS, Stable)
Windows 8 (I can’t imagine who thought this was a good idea)
Maybe project Blue will fix it again.
Paul
Linux would offer you vodka and Red Bull.
Yeah, I think so. 
You can run ANY windows program on Linux. It is ok to fear the unknown
I have a lot of pro audio stuff that AFAIK won’t run on Linux. Too hardware specific.
It’s not really just windows (in fact, it’s probably more the fact that I have an HP) it’s everything on the win platform. For instance, on Google Chrome my Gmail doesn’t work properly. It works fine on Safari. On my printer at home (which is an HP as well) I have not been able to get my HP PC to work wirelessly. But my iPad and Mac works just fine.
Just weird stuff like that that makes having a PC an unpleasant experience.
Many of the companies I support are moving to Macs, especially since we are moving them to the cloud and they can get rid of their Windows infrastructure.
Just about all systems at my house are Mac based and the only reason I have my Windows systems at home is due to the fact that I support so many companies and businesses that rely on Windows systems. Actually, when I’m using remote desktop to troublshoot a system or network, I’m on a Mac. With Windows 8, it just seems like it takes 1-2 more steps to do anything compared to Windows 7 and XP. If mine started asking me if I would like a beer, then maybe I would like it a little more ;D