froghawk on 28/6/2014 at 13:57

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There is no irony because I never claimed to be a power user and I'm blatantly trolling. Lighten up.

Muzman on 28/6/2014 at 16:16

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Well, for the sake of it, it isn't an assessment of the platform. It's a joke about the brand loyalty of many users (and delighting in obscure and largely irrelevant features that imply some sort of design superiority but are probably important to somebody. PCs did a lot of things first too) All of which has at least some basis in reality, in my experience.

The truth is Mac OS is fine, but that's all it is. The fact people so swiftly go off into the weeds of feature minutiae most people don't care about supports this (and it's graphics and typography stuff, as ever. Some things never change). And the price can rarely be justified as anything other than boutique pricing, which at least partially explains people's spirited 'evangelism' at times.

Laptops inevitably come up and yes, Apple wins. There haven't been competitive PC laptops until recently (which is probably debatable). If you wanted something other than a folding portable PC you plug in you needed a Mac. But you could buy four of these folding portable PCs...
In desktops Macs were ludicrous for the longest time. Impossible to network and service. Terrible connectivity and generally uncooperative. And it's little surprise that it's not the thing people talk about much. They have virtually ceded the field.
The fact that the company's whole business and design strategy is so terribly precious does nothing to recommend them either. Now, we can head off the inevitable tu quoque and say that yes, given the chance Microsoft would be exactly the same. But, try as they might their chosen platform has made this impossible. That's probably the greatest 'feature' of them all.

So pick a computer that does the thing you want that you can afford.

Weasel on 28/6/2014 at 17:10

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Back on topic for a moment, Thief 4 is on sale now for just $15!

froghawk on 28/6/2014 at 17:18

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If only it were worth that much…

The bottom line is that the OS wars are incredibly stupid and I don't know why people waste their time on that stuff. Each OS is better for certain applications (for instance, in my personal uses, Windows for gaming and OSX for audio production), and any competent user will know how to make each work for what they need to do. Admittedly, every other version of Windows tends to be terrible (Millennium, Vista, 8) but if you're on one of the good versions and turn off all the UAC crap it'll be fine. If one works better for you, then great - it doesn't make the OS inherently better, and the definition of better changes depending on what you want to do. So quit wasting time and energy trying to prove why one of them is crap or the other is superior - it's pointless.

WingedKagouti on 28/6/2014 at 19:44

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I've played it some, didn't get too far. Compelling enough, though my memory of it had more than a few "how the fuck am I supposed to progress now?"-moments.

And apparently others seem to think so too, according to (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/GuideDangIt/Action) this tvtropes list at least.