I used to be a Windows fanboi before 2007 and this girl I dated had iChat with video chat so I bought a mac and never looked back. Bill Gates sucks ass
Bill Gates had nothing to do with windows for a long time by 2007. Being proud of being a mac guy now 😂. Most inferior cpu's on the market and the ones they stick you with are at least 3 generations behind, most inferior gpu's on the market 😂, also at least 1 generation behind current retail. Shitty 3rd rate lpram and they charge you 120% above retail per stick 😂. Being shafted with a proprietary app store 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Edit: they had video chat bro lmao
64gb ram home built: $360 at 3600mghz 64gb ram apple: $800 and it's lowest speed possible 22400 - 2400mghz
I used Windows as my primary OS until early last year, but stopped once using XP was no longer practical and 7 EOL'd. I refuse to install Windows 10 for a multitude of reasons including: the in-place upgrade every couple months that you can't disable, resetting of draconian privacy settings during said upgrades, the "metro" replacements of the start menu and included utilities, and the lack of a "classic theme" that disables all the unnecessary bells-and-whistles.
Since Linux is so customizable, I was able to set up an almost-exact recreation of the Windows 2000/XP "classic" desktop environment. Therefore, I can retain my old workflow while still keeping the system and all its software up to date. It has been a side project for me for a while, and I intend to publish the results online when it's done. Of course, this is only one of many options you have with Linux. I've seen close recreations of classic Mac OS, OS X, NeXTSTEP, CDE and AmigaOS to name a few, and there are a plethora of original desktop environments.
Edit: I might add... my PC specs... 2x Xeon E5-2670 (8 cores each), 32 (soon to be 48) GB of RAM, GTX 970ti (I don't game), and at one time Windows XP x64 ;) I still do have 7 installed for certain things that I can't do in a VM.
I tried to get into Linux via ubuntu 15 years or so ago but that’s about when I started getting more into cars vs. computers so my interest petered out. I still run XP via virtualbox on my macs though if I need to run older software.
The crazy thing is on these old intel based macs installing an SSD took them from being worn out and slow immediately to fully booting up from a cold shutdown in <20 sec. That was on my $100 2006 macbook. The same could probably be done with any PC as well, but having the SATA HD interface 10-15 years ago on these macs helped me extend the usefulness by another few years.
home built running an OS that needs weekly update and Windows Genuine Advantage™️ to stay alive when i buy something with my socialist COVID stimulus package that will last me another 10 years. I don’t even game bro and I roll around in motor oil now under shitty ass cars I spend $150 a year (incl. oil change, would recommend Rotella T6 even on non-turbo cars) to keep running just because.
I built my first PC off dog shit 486 garbage bin parts in 1997 and played MS-DOS games with 3dfx and voodoo video cards when windows wasn’t so plug n play and decided after 10 years of that that I’d rather buy an all in one iMac that I could still upgrade with SSD to keep me 90% satisfied and the other 10% is from my smoking hot wife. I edited goddamn txt files to cheat fucking games in the late 90’s. I pressed the turbo button to de-clock my 486 down to 8MHz just so the fucking text on family feud wouldn’t read so fast so I could beat the stupid CPU family and go to sleep satisfied.
I tune my turbo cars with a 2006 macbook with an SSD that cold boots into virtualbox XP faster than the latest android tablet and still enjoy the smell of E85 soaked into my skin (kind of has a moonshine aroma to it, would suggest) I don’t need windows 11 or whatever when an OS that’s 20 years old and a car that’s 40 years old can blow away any Evo or STI even with advanced driver aids on the autocross course.
PS i also run an android tablet connected to bluetooth on my turbo engine’s ECU because Apple truly doesn’t have everything I need. but I log so much data on shitty ass old computers you would shit your pants should you ever be faced with 15psi boost on stock internals and hitting 13+ AFR under 100% load and you probably don’t know what it’s like to hit 254 VE and realize your fuel system is undersized.
I used to be a Windows fanboi before 2007 and this girl I dated had iChat with video chat so I bought a mac and never looked back. Bill Gates sucks ass
Or someone who needs a reliable machine to get work done, that's also a possibility.
Bill Gates had nothing to do with windows for a long time by 2007. Being proud of being a mac guy now 😂. Most inferior cpu's on the market and the ones they stick you with are at least 3 generations behind, most inferior gpu's on the market 😂, also at least 1 generation behind current retail. Shitty 3rd rate lpram and they charge you 120% above retail per stick 😂. Being shafted with a proprietary app store 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Edit: they had video chat bro lmao
64gb ram home built: $360 at 3600mghz 64gb ram apple: $800 and it's lowest speed possible 22400 - 2400mghz
☝🏼alienware simp takes tech bros too seriously
Never bought a single product from Dell in my life. Your the retail computing solutions simp bro lol.
Edit: you have no understanding of computers beyond box store brands lol
Linux is the answer.
I used Windows as my primary OS until early last year, but stopped once using XP was no longer practical and 7 EOL'd. I refuse to install Windows 10 for a multitude of reasons including: the in-place upgrade every couple months that you can't disable, resetting of draconian privacy settings during said upgrades, the "metro" replacements of the start menu and included utilities, and the lack of a "classic theme" that disables all the unnecessary bells-and-whistles.
Since Linux is so customizable, I was able to set up an almost-exact recreation of the Windows 2000/XP "classic" desktop environment. Therefore, I can retain my old workflow while still keeping the system and all its software up to date. It has been a side project for me for a while, and I intend to publish the results online when it's done. Of course, this is only one of many options you have with Linux. I've seen close recreations of classic Mac OS, OS X, NeXTSTEP, CDE and AmigaOS to name a few, and there are a plethora of original desktop environments.
Edit: I might add... my PC specs... 2x Xeon E5-2670 (8 cores each), 32 (soon to be 48) GB of RAM, GTX 970ti (I don't game), and at one time Windows XP x64 ;) I still do have 7 installed for certain things that I can't do in a VM.
I tried to get into Linux via ubuntu 15 years or so ago but that’s about when I started getting more into cars vs. computers so my interest petered out. I still run XP via virtualbox on my macs though if I need to run older software.
The crazy thing is on these old intel based macs installing an SSD took them from being worn out and slow immediately to fully booting up from a cold shutdown in <20 sec. That was on my $100 2006 macbook. The same could probably be done with any PC as well, but having the SATA HD interface 10-15 years ago on these macs helped me extend the usefulness by another few years.
home built running an OS that needs weekly update and Windows Genuine Advantage™️ to stay alive when i buy something with my socialist COVID stimulus package that will last me another 10 years. I don’t even game bro and I roll around in motor oil now under shitty ass cars I spend $150 a year (incl. oil change, would recommend Rotella T6 even on non-turbo cars) to keep running just because.
I built my first PC off dog shit 486 garbage bin parts in 1997 and played MS-DOS games with 3dfx and voodoo video cards when windows wasn’t so plug n play and decided after 10 years of that that I’d rather buy an all in one iMac that I could still upgrade with SSD to keep me 90% satisfied and the other 10% is from my smoking hot wife. I edited goddamn txt files to cheat fucking games in the late 90’s. I pressed the turbo button to de-clock my 486 down to 8MHz just so the fucking text on family feud wouldn’t read so fast so I could beat the stupid CPU family and go to sleep satisfied.
I tune my turbo cars with a 2006 macbook with an SSD that cold boots into virtualbox XP faster than the latest android tablet and still enjoy the smell of E85 soaked into my skin (kind of has a moonshine aroma to it, would suggest) I don’t need windows 11 or whatever when an OS that’s 20 years old and a car that’s 40 years old can blow away any Evo or STI even with advanced driver aids on the autocross course.
PS i also run an android tablet connected to bluetooth on my turbo engine’s ECU because Apple truly doesn’t have everything I need. but I log so much data on shitty ass old computers you would shit your pants should you ever be faced with 15psi boost on stock internals and hitting 13+ AFR under 100% load and you probably don’t know what it’s like to hit 254 VE and realize your fuel system is undersized.
fucking with you man, it’s been a good 14 years since I got into a good flame war with someone online and I wanted to drop some tech bantz.
I really don’t give a fuck about computers anymore so I just buy appliances for storing photos anymore and stick to my old shit for tuning cars.