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<blockquote data-quote="shoelessone" data-source="post: 437909" data-attributes="member: 33961"><p>Yes, I suppose I should probably just suck it up and deal with it. I'm struggling though! Not only have I been using Windows for 12 years (and been very happy with it!), but I'm also a senior cs major and have spent most of my young adult - now (22) with fellow nerds, posting on forums like hardocp's forums, the Java forums, genmay, etc... I guess I've been surrounded by power users my entire life (whether they are mac or PC) and in my experience no matter if you are a windows or a OSX user, nobody makes broad blanket generalizations like "windows has so many viruses!". Sure, there are many more windows viruses, it's the natural thing to expect. Obviously there are quite a few schools of thougth on this issue, but that's for another post! In the end, it's not JUST me - I don't know a single person (including my computer illiterate family) who uses any sort of anti-virus protection. I have not heard of a single person that I know getting a virus in years. I've heard sensationalized reports on the news about a new virus, "Tonight on Fox news a computer virus that can change itself and might be infecting your computer right now, and might possibly give you the HIV", but that's about it.</p><p></p><p>So yes, it's frusterating to hear about windows and it's faults often times as a justification for something else. Windows and OSX each have their merrits! I decided to spend 2000 on a computer made by Apple, so I'm obviously not too crazy about Windows, but I much prefer the folks on here who know what they are talking about and say things like, "Well, nobody makes a perfect system, try this _____" or "Sounds like perhaps a Mac isn't for you and your budget, you should check out these _______", instead of bring up (though you said you disagree with me) how many viruses Windows gets.</p><p></p><p></rant></p><p></p><p></all rants on the subject></p><p></p><p>I think I'm giong to create a blog and document my entire switching experience in detail.</p><p></p><p><3 night all!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shoelessone, post: 437909, member: 33961"] Yes, I suppose I should probably just suck it up and deal with it. I'm struggling though! Not only have I been using Windows for 12 years (and been very happy with it!), but I'm also a senior cs major and have spent most of my young adult - now (22) with fellow nerds, posting on forums like hardocp's forums, the Java forums, genmay, etc... I guess I've been surrounded by power users my entire life (whether they are mac or PC) and in my experience no matter if you are a windows or a OSX user, nobody makes broad blanket generalizations like "windows has so many viruses!". Sure, there are many more windows viruses, it's the natural thing to expect. Obviously there are quite a few schools of thougth on this issue, but that's for another post! In the end, it's not JUST me - I don't know a single person (including my computer illiterate family) who uses any sort of anti-virus protection. I have not heard of a single person that I know getting a virus in years. I've heard sensationalized reports on the news about a new virus, "Tonight on Fox news a computer virus that can change itself and might be infecting your computer right now, and might possibly give you the HIV", but that's about it. So yes, it's frusterating to hear about windows and it's faults often times as a justification for something else. Windows and OSX each have their merrits! I decided to spend 2000 on a computer made by Apple, so I'm obviously not too crazy about Windows, but I much prefer the folks on here who know what they are talking about and say things like, "Well, nobody makes a perfect system, try this _____" or "Sounds like perhaps a Mac isn't for you and your budget, you should check out these _______", instead of bring up (though you said you disagree with me) how many viruses Windows gets. </rant> </all rants on the subject> I think I'm giong to create a blog and document my entire switching experience in detail. <3 night all! [/QUOTE]
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