Is It Time?

JohnTheMacGeek · May 26, 2008

I had a wonderfully frustrating experience today. I decided to boot up my Vista machine to get the new updates. I hadn't done this since last month. Unlike when I'm on my MacBook, I had to think about how to get around in the Windows environment. I found it to be somewhat frustrating, yet I couldn't help smiling! So I ask this: Can I now drop the "Switcher" title?

louishen · May 26, 2008

sounds like you can to me

you have come over to the cosy side of the force

The Vindicat3d · May 26, 2008

You could... but than you would no longer be able to get help in the infamous switcher forum!

PapaNoHair · May 26, 2008

As long as they don't change the name to "new" switcher you should be alright! I am an "old" switcher.

thedood · May 26, 2008

It's time my friend - enter the light.......

cwa107 · May 26, 2008

PapaNoHair said:
As long as they don't change the name to "new" switcher you should be alright! I am an "old" switcher.

Here too - I still consider myself a "switcher".

technologist · May 26, 2008

No. Only those whose first computer was a Mac (or Apple I/II/III) are not Switchers.

It doesn't matter if you Switched in 1982 from your IBM PC-5150 to an Apple II+ and have used nothing but Apple products since. You still Switched. But that doesn't make you any less a Mac user today.

WolfsBane · May 27, 2008

Since I still have to contend with Windows at work, I consider myself a "back & forth switcher". I'm pretty much Windows free at home.

Tanner31593 · May 27, 2008

I still use Windows.
I'm actually interested in trying Vista. I'm not going to shell out any money to, but it looks interesting.
I love Mac.
I love Windows.
I'd love to love Linux, but haven't got my hands on a distro in a while besides Ubuntu...

I don't care about the MAC ONLY or WINDOWS ALL THE WAY junk.

I dip my brush in all the paints and make my own colors.

AlyciaAnimation · May 27, 2008

I never really considered myself a switcher. I think partly because that name wasn't as popular when I bought my first Mac, but mostly because I more feel like I was forced to use Windows until I was old enough and had the money to by my own computer. I was always a Mac user in my heart

tapioca · May 29, 2008

I love the simplicity of unix and gnu systems, and its still a dark mistery to me how a winows computer works. why do you have to do stuff like refragmentation? how it starts up? why do you have to do all that weird procedure to eject a usb stick?

imnothardcore · May 29, 2008

WolfsBane said:
Since I still have to contend with Windows at work, I consider myself a "back & forth switcher". I'm pretty much Windows free at home.

same.

my friend actually has my windows computer, he needed to borrow a computer and i haven't touched it since i got my apple.

JohnTheMacGeek · May 29, 2008

Tanner31593 said:
I still use Windows.
I'm actually interested in trying Vista. I'm not going to shell out any money to, but it looks interesting.
I love Mac.
I love Windows.
I'd love to love Linux, but haven't got my hands on a distro in a while besides Ubuntu...

I don't care about the MAC ONLY or WINDOWS ALL THE WAY junk.

I dip my brush in all the paints and make my own colors.

Windows has its place (for now) ... but this house is Windows free and better off for it!

PapaNoHair · May 29, 2008

Tanner31593 said:
I still use Windows.
I'm actually interested in trying Vista. I'm not going to shell out any money to, but it looks interesting.
I love Mac.
I love Windows.
I'd love to love Linux, but haven't got my hands on a distro in a while besides Ubuntu...

I don't care about the MAC ONLY or WINDOWS ALL THE WAY junk.

I dip my brush in all the paints and make my own colors.

What would you want in a Linux system? There are many distros so the best way I have found is to match what you need with what various distros offer. Some install in minutes and run themselves and others you have to build from the ground up - but you wind up with a custom-designed system.