It's funny. I'd actually like to try out both Mac and Windows 8.1. I migt
lose access to afew games but they're not ones I play much these days.
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!
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From: Thomas Ward
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 10:18 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question
Hi Josh,
that is a very valid point. All too often there are people who say
they hate a certain operating system such as Mac OS, Linux, or a new
version of Windows based only on a few hours of trying it at a friends
house or at a store and then declaring it junk. the problem is as you
stated is that they really do need a few weeks perhaps a few months to
get over their prior experiences and give the operating system a fair
assessment without biases to find out if they really like it or not. I
can use myself as an example here.
Back when Windows 8 was available for beta testing I grabbed the
public beta, slapped NVDA on it, and my first inclination was that it
sucked. I hated the interface, was upset of having all the ribbons in
File Explorer, the removal of the Start Menu, whatever. I swore up and
down I would not buy it.
However, a year later my opinion has changed. Given the choice between
Windows 8 and Windows 7 I'd take Windows 8 over Windows 7. There are a
variety of reasons why my opinion changed, but one has to do with I
have grown use to the changes, I have found workarounds I didn't know
about before for things I didn't like, and can look more objectively
at certain things like performance, accessibility, and so on which I
wasn't really looking at when beta testing.
The point is that had I gone on my first impressions alone I would not
have gotten Windows 8 or 8.1. I'd probably be as steadfast about
Windows 7 as some users are about XP. However, now that I have had
time to assess the operating system there are things I don't like, but
there are also things I like too. I think my opinion is certainly more
valid than it was a year ago.
However, there is another flaw in Dark's logic besides just using an
operating system for a day and declaring it good or bad, and that is
he is looking for some illusive improvement in word processing,
playing mp3s, etc. I am afraid if that is his only criteria than he
will be disappointed in computers in general since I think all
operating systems are about the same in that regard, and he will never
find a reason to upgrade because one can do those things just as well
on Windows 8.1 as on Windows XP with verylittle to no difference in
features. It seems to me Dark's argument is similar to the "if it
isn't broke don't fix it" argument.
Cheers~!!
On 12/17/13, Draconis <i...@dracoent.com> wrote:
Hi Tom,
There is a flaw in Dark’s logic though, and in that of many other’s. I don’t
believe when trying out a new system for the first time, bet hat Mac or
Linux or Windows 7, that you can spend only a handful of hours with
something radically different from what you’re used to and come away with
a
reasonably informed and valid opinion of it. Operating systems can vary
tremendously in terms of how the user interfaces with them, and it takes
quite some time for your previous experiences to stop interfering with
your
usage of the new system.
Case in point…a friend and colleague of mine got a Mac, and for the first
week or two hated it. He came very close to whipping the drive and
installing Windows and forgetting OS X entirely.
Then something happened at about the two week mark, when finally something
clicked for him, and he started to overcome those barriers that are built
through long use of an OS. Today, he’s an avid Mac user and would never go
back to Windows, despite having been a Windows user for nearly fifteen
years.
I see this pattern again and again with people trying out different
operating systems.
So, no matter the OS, I take no one very seriously who claims their
opinion
is informed because it is based on a few hours with a brand-new OS.
I spent several weeks with Linux a few years back, and while it isn’t for
me, and I feel it has far more headaches than it is worth, I do understand
its appeal and get why some people choose to use it. I won’t speak with
any
authority on Windows 8, because I haven’t spent any significant time with
it. I read with interest experiences of those who have spent significant
time with it, and dismiss those who used it for a day and declared it
junk.
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