Macs Don’t Have The Problems PCs Do!
And I have a bridge for sale…
I’m sure you’ve heard your friend the Mac bigot tell you this and that about the Mac is better.
You know, the file system doesn’t fragment, it doesn’t crash, it’s easy to use, software uninstalls properly…
I’ve talked about fragmentation before; and there’s no reason to cover that ground again. As to it doesn’t crash, well… you don’t see the sad Mac or the bomb any more — but it crashes, sometimes you get a kernel panic, sometimes it just reboots (I’ve seen both)…
But the really amusing thing is the software uninstall myth.
That’s a load of CRAP. The real problem is most Mac user’s wouldn’t know if software uninstalled or not — as long as the entry disappears from the Applications folder they think it’s been uninstalled.
Open up a “Terminal” window and ‘sudo bash’ — then have a look around at all the garbage that gets left by uninstalls and upgrades (including Apple software).
Two that are great are VMware Fusion, and Parallels Desktop — but almost every piece of software I’ve uninstalled or upgraded seems to leave something behind.
Installing and un-installing software really isn’t as easy as it seems it should be; but a lot of the problems with the install and un-install are the operating systems really weren’t well engineered for that in the first place.
Both Microsoft and Apple attempted to come up with standards for software installation; and for the most part I think vendors follow those standards… at least where the standards are clear. But it’s just more complicated than it really needs to be, and the software developers are expected to track too many things. Like I said, Apple can’t seem to do it on OS-X, and Microsoft can’t seem to do it on Windows — so what chance has the mortal software developer got?
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