It all comes down to understanding people. The "arrogant hacker" is a very tired stereotype and I hope that people will move past it and discover that it does nothing to further a given cause. Bill Gates acted arrogantly, Linus Torvalds acts like that and Steve Jobs was a champion at being arrogant and rude. Zuckerberg is just following the sad tradition and all these people are role models for nerds who start already with serious social skill deficiencies. I can say that because I come form the same background :) It's all too easy to be an asshole, it takes skill to be a listener and make space for other people's choices.

I use a Mac because I love the way Mac OS works and I have no doubts about its higher value, as technology goes. The same for Linux. For years it was the only OS that I used and I think that it's simply stunning how solid and rich it is. I moved from Linux to Mac OS when I needed a laptop for my business. Windows was never an option. And I say this as someone who started his first PC way back with DOS 2.10. I've seen all the OSes for PCs and the whole PC revolution happen, and I will always treasure those years. 

I think that I have solid technical reasons for my choices and preferences but I know that I'm not going to win any sympathy by badmouthing your choices. Things are not black and white. There are good features in Windows and I can see how people are attracted to it for several reasons.

I actually feel that today the landscape is much better than ten years ago. In 2001 I left the world of software development because the situation was really bleack. MS dominance of the market was nearly absolute and I could not find anything that interested me. I had it with software! :)

So, I opened my on-line motorcycle part store and... I started writing software! Well, at least I was writing my own thing using Linux and open technologies. 

Today the Mac and iOS are much stronger in the market and so there is much more competition and I feel that people have alternatives. The Linux desktop failed and I don't believe that it will ever recover but Linux has found a place in the industry. Windows has to compete for space and I think that that is healthy. 

On top of all that, new virtiualization technologies allow me to run Windows inside my Mac so I can do all my development on Mac OS and then recompile Reality for Windows and test it without leaving my familiar environment. 

So, a long post just to say that freedom of choice is great, we have more of that today, and yes, I still strongly believe that you have a much better User Experience with the Mac but that's just me talking. If you want to agree great, if you don't, that's good too :).

 

Cheers.

Paolo

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