XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-08-24 15:49, Sn!pe wrote:   
   > Joel W. Crump  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 8/24/2025 2:38 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> The Mac I bought to try out ended up getting completely wiped and   
   >>>> Windows 7 put on it, though I did try using Boot Camp, but was   
   >>>> unsatisfied with that setup.  I actually liked Snow Leopard when I   
   >>>> first got it, tried numerous Apple-native apps, tried out its Unix   
   >>>> components, thought it was cool, but it wore off.  I'm just not wired   
   >>>> for Apple.   
   >>   
   >>> In what way?   
   >>>   
   >>> More specifically, if you're "not wired for Apple", because you replaced   
   >>> it with Windows, what makes you more "wired" for that?   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Windows is just WYSIWYG, Mac is quirky.  Linux requires comprehension,   
   >> which I have, but I'm not disliking using Windows again, for now.  I   
   >> haven't made my decision about replacing it with Linux on this mini PC.   
   >>   
   >   
   > You say that your experience of Mac was using Snow Leopard: that   
   > version was current 16 years ago.  You're a very long way out of date   
   > to be passing comments about modern macOS.   
   >   
   > In what way was that ancient version quirky?  Do you mean "different   
   > from Windows"?  Perhaps it required too much of a mental gear-shift   
   > to become properly accustomed to the Mac way of going about things.   
   > To be fair, it did take me a couple of days to be comfortable with it   
   > when I first migrated to Mac from Windows via Mandrake Linux.   
   >   
      
   And I bet you've never looked back. :-)   
      
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