Let the flame wars begin! Which operating system do you think is superior: Windows or Mac OS? Why?

I will start. I would normally say Windows because I use it all the time and it runs my favorite games, but it also has problems. I have found Mac OS to be more reliable.

So in my book, Windows wins hands-down in terms of application compatibility, but I think Mac OS takes the cake when it comes to stability, e.g. it just works and you don't have to fiddle with it to get it to work, and it rarely "breaks." There's a trade-off there, and I am honestly not sure which one is "better." I prefer Windows, but I am not sure that makes it "better." Apple will always have the upper hand in stability in that they make the hardware and software; MS just makes the software and has to make it work with everyone's hardware. That is no small task, and I think they actually do a pretty good job.

But just for the sake of debate, I will say Windows, because I know it inside and out and I am comfortable using it and tweaking it to my heart's content. Windows/MS are neither as good as the MS fanboys claim, nor as bad as the Apple fanatics claim.

Oh and Apple has way cooler marketing/brand image than MS does, but that's another debate....

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You will be happy to know that you are no longer the only Jesus geek here; I just signed up today.

I will have to say Windows, only because I don't know very much about Macs.  I has one sent to me from a customer so I could test it with a Citrix web interface that I was bringing online.  I felt it was a pain to work with, but that was because I turned it on and had absolutely no idea what I was doing.  One cool thing I did like was the MacMini; a tiny little thing, sealed up into a shell about the size of a Bible.  My customer sent me a script to run on the thing to configure the box to run a specific version of Java, and it took me quite a while to run it.  Then again, I had no idea what I was doing either. 

I also prefer Windows. Welcome to the community, clembem!

clembem, did you find MacOS to be more stable than Windows, or no?

I honestly cannot say since I hardly spent any time with it.  I did what I had to do with it and that was it, and it was not much.  :-) 
I would like to have spent more time with it as i know I have a few more brain cells that are empty, but I had to send my customer's MiniMac back to them.  :-(

all I can say I'm glad Windows is out there, if we were all running Macs as a computer tech I'd be out of business.

Lol, that's true! Windows problems have created a multi-billion dollar industry haven't they?

Even though this an older topic, I can't help but add my 2 cents. To me it is MAC OSX hands down. Why, because it just works. I started out with computers with a Commodore 64 and then moved up. I skipped over Macs and used Windows machines for years. About three years ago I switched to Macs and never looked back. Yes some programs are not available for Macs, but there is usually a excellent substitute. I hope that is enough info.

Thanks for your input.  I started on a PC and never looked back.  At church, they use a MAC laptop.  I haven't really done much with it other than working with the Pro Presenter which allows me to put the lyrics of our praise and worship songs up on the screen, but as far as the differences, because I do more with my PC, that's the one I would probably choose when replacing my computer at home.  I have spoken to the techies on  my job and all of them say MAC hands down because they don't have the problems that the PC's run into.

Do the MAC's outlast the PC's?  My current computer is about 4 years old, with absolutely no problems thus far but I'm sure that a replacement is on the horizon.

Thanks,
Dee

I do not know if they will last longer physically, but usage wise they do I think. The Mac OS is not as resource hungry as Windows. My wife had a laptop that would still be working if she had not offered it a glass of ice tea on the keyboard   Oh well, these things happen. And, another good thing is that you can now easily run Windows on an Intel Mac. There is a program built into the newest OSX release and there are two other programs for other vendors that let you run Windows. I run the program named "Parallels" and Windows XP on the Mac I am using now. My wife must use  Windows to log in and do remote access for her job sometimes. Only my laptop has this program. To show how easy it was, she got up sick one morning, called into work to tell them she wasn't coming in, then grabbed my laptop and signed into her work account to sign off payroll that had to be done that morning. The easy part was that she figured out how to do this without ANY prior instruction from me, and she is not a computer wiz [I am not either but I know more than she does.] Also, Windows run well on my laptop and my laptop is only a MacBook, not the top of the line MacBook Pro. I hope this answers your question. Sorry if I rambled, but as they say; "Once you go Mac you never go back".

I'm a Mac man . . .

I've been a graphic designer for over 25 years, and every place I've been including most advertising agencies, Mac seems to be the standard for graphic design. I've spent the past 5 years doing web design - and now  I'm bouncing back and forth between the two.

I have a MacBook Pro running both Mac OSX software and Windows Vista and Windows XP. . . . (I have Windows XP loaded to check my sites on IE version 6.0 and I use Vista to check my sites on IE 7), . . .  at the click of a mouse I can move from the Mac OS to Windows so for me the choice is easy. Buy a MacBook Pro (running dual Intel Processors) and use both Mac and Windows software on one machine!