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In a surprisingly ironic twist, Windows is far better than Mac for one very important reason; it breaks.

Windows is an enormously vast and dangerous beast existing in many incarnations and clones of itself each with their own flavor, behavior, and quirks. In fact, just about any two computers running any version of Windows are vastly different in hardware, software, and performance. In one office building, you could have two identical machines running the same version of Windows and one will always seem to run better than the other.

Now, some people would use this as a mark against Windows, but I disagree. Mac’s are known by the slogan “it just works”. But, that in and of itself, is the one major flaw of Macs. That sort of mindset spawns laziness. Always expecting it to “just work” when you press a button prepares you for nothing when the day comes that the button does nothing at all when pressed.

Windows users, on the other hand, those who have been on this little journey since MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 will tell you that there is a certain amount of pride in knowing what they know. They have seen it all from BSoD on bootup to entire boot sectors getting rewritten. They’ve tackled head first the onslaught of viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, malware, or any other little nuisance that was developed to make their Windows machine turn against them.

Windows users are battle-scarred, leathery, cynical, and bitter. They’ve been through the shit and saw hell, and they’re stronger because of it. They’ve become smarter, more aware, and can debug their way out of just about any problem a computer can throw at them. Mac users, on the other hand… well, their view of the computing world is so limited and narrow that they don’t see any difference between Macs and Windows thinking foolishly that they are identical except one works and the other doesn’t. This is, of course, nonsense.

Windows machines are a labrinth of possibilities and customizable options. When you turn on a Windows machine, you never know what you’re going to see.

There is a reason why Windows has so many problems. It’s because it can do a whole lot more. The more complex the machine, the more abundant the problems. I’ll even use an example to explain this.

Of all simple machines, we’ll use the lever. Push down on one side, the other side goes up. Simple right? You can’t really mess that up; action and result. Simple, effective, but limited. Sure, it’s hard to break it, but it can only really do so much. Now, compare a simple lever to a forklift. Same principle; it lifts things. But it can also move, has lights, beeps when backing up, and turns. Far more things can go wrong here.

For first time computer users, I suggest Macs to them. The less they have to break, the less likely it is to break. Leave Windows to the people who know what they’re doing.

Windows, with all of its flaws and bugs, its security holes and hassles, is a far superior operating system to Mac for the very reasons why people hate it.