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Message: <blockquote data-quote="azhrei_fje" data-source="post: 3797805" data-attributes="member: 12966">Oh, don't be a party pooper. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />    ( <--- If you can't tell, that's a big grin! )So far I like the Mac OS.  I'm a Linux fanboy, but any flavor of Unix is fine with me.  Call me a bigot, but I like operating systems with real memory protection. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  And I like having hardware that works on the Mac, compared to Linux.  My Compaq laptop wouldn't suspend properly, making the standby feature useless (this was apparently a BIOS problem on the Compaq, since a custom ACPI DSDT table can apparently fix it).  And that's a big problem.I use Windows to run DM Genie and some of the Internet poker software, but that's it.  Everything else is Linux, including all of the accounting and document preparation for a half-million dollar a year business (I run a corporate training and consulting business).  I'm not IBM, but I would trust my business to a Unix system before anything else.Games are not important to me, or I suppose I might be stuck with Windows.  As it is, I occasionally play BZFlag or Mahjong (sp?) but that's it.Operating systems are just tools.  They are the raw resources needed to get a job done and nothing more.  I treat them as such. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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