re: Are you a mac or a windows person?

Running MAC work and home and use Windows with Parallels at work due to software capabilities with Windows, only. Prefer MAC for across multiple device use.

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The only reason I have a mac is because it doesn't crash that much. I hate everything else about it.

Why can't the doorknobs over at microsoft make a machine that doesn't crash? Someone explain it to me like I'm 5.

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Most crashes are some sort of driver issue, and it's way harder to support a basically infinite variety of hardware configurations than a limited known set.

Linux supports an even wider variety of hardware, though, and it crashes far less often than Windows. My guess is that, in addition to just being a more stable foundation of an OS, Linux users skew far more technical and are more likely to submit bug reports, or even fix the issue themselves given that most of the code is open.

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That sounds great if you only want to use Apple stuff. There are a lot of people out there though that prefer to use alternate products than be locked into only one speaker, probably the majority of people.

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Certainly. I understand people wanting more flexibility and options, but don't underestimate how many people are more than happy to not bother and find the Apple eco system more than meets their needs.

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find the Apple eco system more than meets their needs.

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I’m generally pleasantly surprised to find most things I need. Several are hidden behind an extra slew of menus and mouse clicks, but the CLI makes them a lot easier to use when needed.
I don’t prefer it by any stretch, but it’s generally pretty functional. Just yesterday I was able to iron out SFTP upload from Terminal (EHR requirement for uploading files, so we have a network share that needs to be sync’d over SFTP connection). Native on OSX. Requires extra module in Powershell (POSH) or an additional program.

Doesn’t mean it’s better. My final solution is actually probably going to be an automated script in powershell on a windows desktop that requires the extra module, because I can put a used SFF low-power, essentially silent HP/Dell/Lenovo computer in place for $200-300 with a decent CPU. Benchmarks are fine. And an m1 Mac mini will put up better numbers, but real world performance for a simple task, it’s pretty damn hard to beat an off-lease mini desktop like that.


My current laptops are a near-dead-battery 15” XPS from 7ish years ago. Still a monster machine for any daily use and light games. Also use an m1 MacBook Air because I wanted thin/light, iMessage on my desktop (yes- there are no fewer than 10 workarounds for this. But all my damn coworkers have iPhones and text me from iMessage. They’re not adapting because of me. Again. iMessage isn’t inherently better. But its popularity among my peers makes it very close to a necessity, however frustrating that may be), and actually think the speech to text is decent (it is light years ahead of what Microsoft is doing, and 90% of my desire for a Nuance product is speech to text rather than automation/auto click function, so the damn laptop was cheaper than paying for Dragon. Again, it’s not even as good as Dragon, but the speech to text is passable for the vast majority of my usage (it catches most medicines, procedures, and conditions without significant problem. A huge surprise)


On my desk at home, I have an m1 Mac mini and an i5-8500/PNY 1660S (better than TI in this series for some weird reason!) with a Phillips 49” ultra wide monitor which acts as a KVM, so I share a mouse, an Apple Magic Trackpad (the gesture control on both OS is actually pretty darn useful) and a Logitech mechanical keyboard).
I like to play music, so I’ve got a Presonus interface with a condenser mic shared through the KVM.
It’s a pretty lovely battle station. As I get more used to OSX keyboard shortcuts, I’m pleasantly surprised at how little you need a mouse/keyboard in the OS at all. And then I get equally as pissed off when I use the wrong shortcut, a Windows one, or look through a stupid file explorer that displays in the dumbest ways possible all the time.



I plan on adding a Linux machine in the not-so-distant future, but there’s no way to share the mouse/keyboard 3 ways, so it’ll have to be set up at the wife’s battle station which will likely go over like a fart in church.

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Dedicated KVM switch

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sorry- I didn't mean to make it seem like these didn't exist or that I didn't know about them. I just had already gone a little into detail about my setup. A little more:

My monitor 499P9H has dual USB uplink to share 3 USB ports (which I've daisy chained into a "neat" looking hub.
I have Displayport, 2x HDMI, and USB-C.

I use the DP from the Windows box and the USB C for video/usb from the Mac. What I was trying to express is a small amount of frustation that there are two spare HDMI ports but no way to further share the embedded KVM without a costly/unsightly additional piece of hardware (either an additional keyboard/mouse

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Mac - The Mac is ok but it's major drawback is that MS Office just isn't the same on a Apple product

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Current iteration of Office 365 for Mac isn't bad at all.

I really do love MacOs and am buried pretty deep into the Apple ecosystem, but several of my work apps keep me tied to my Surface Pro. Windows 10 has been fine in the sense that it's an appliance and works well. Outside of work, it's all Mac.

In all, I'd say I'm equally comfortable on both.

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Fedora Linux master race checking in

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I upgraded from W10 to Arch on my personal PC I'm 2021. Manjaro with KDE Plasma. I encounter a little thing here and there that is a little annoying, but personally.. I find no need for Windows anymore. My 7 year old PC doesn't game well anymore anyway so I use my PS5 for that.