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I Chose Mac For Reasons That Had Nothing To Do With Apple or Mac
And only later did I fall in love
I never liked Windows. I was a Unix and Linux guy. I had to support Windows boxes because they were often clients for the far more powerful Unix and Linux machines that I maintained, programmed, and supported. I also supported and did troubleshooting for the TCP/IP networks that Microsoft had scorned for years. I did some Windows programming and support, but my heart was never in it.
From my point of view, Windows was ugly. It lacked the clean interaction of Unix command-line tools. So much of it was buried, undocumented, and mostly inaccessible. It was plagued by viruses and seemed to crash so easily. It was honestly painful to work on. I had no interest in Windows and no respect for it, but I had to support it.
Macs
Macs were something I encountered now and then. I knew a little bit about them and had even dicked around a bit with HyperCard. They were not as crappy as Windows, but there was nothing there to excite me. I thought Macs were quirky and mostly uninteresting until they switched to Intel processors. I became excited then because I could have a Mac that could run almost anything in a virtual machine: Multiple versions of Windows along with multiple Unix and Linux variants; I ‘d be able to support all my clients from one machine!
