how
come I dont see or hear Apple users posting their tales of woe in fora and bboards?

Is it because PC users are daft and don't know how to use them?
(Ymob is a kaburu, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 8:48, 34 replies)

It's because
they're too proud to admit that their overpriced shiny thing goes wrong just as often as a PC does.

Instead, they go to "Genius Bars" where they stand around for three hours with a load of twats in order to see a twat. Much like a normal bar, actually.
(Flap Burger hasn't really got a burger made of flaps, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 9:03, closed)

They're too
busy bumming each other.
(username failed moderation, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 9:19, closed)

^this.
(Ymob is a kaburu, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:48, closed)

Last time I looked Apple Macs were Personal Computers*.
That said, they have special Mac User boards where they complain about things and Apple deny there's a problem.
Also Windows, Linux, the BSDs and other OSs areused for a greater range of tasks and are much more configureable so there are more niggles, tips and tricks to be passed on.
*Though Apple marketards seem to think otherwise
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 9:24, closed)

Bollocks
20 years of trying, and Linux still fails to install half the time.

It's a piece of shit that nobody needs, which is why development is so half arsed.
(username failed moderation, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 9:27, closed)

Very clever.
I bet that took ages to think up.
Oh, sorry, I mean YOU&RE RONG!!!!!!!!!!
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 10:26, closed)

Oh, but it's true.
Every few years, I install Linux on something just to see if it's getting any better.

Last month I tried Ubuntu on my HP laptop, booting off a USB drive. No wifi drivers. Bit of a fundamental problem, wouldn't you say?
(username failed moderation, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 11:06, closed)

Well I installed Windows on my laptop and there were no wifi drivers
luckily nearly all wireless cards have drivers available online or on the disk for windows, mac osx and unix/linux
( Peej, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 11:44, closed)

That's nice.
Unfortunately, there weren't any for Linux.

Windows works fine though.
(username failed moderation, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 11:52, closed)

Try NDISwrapper?
It's really user friendly, honest!*
*These are industrial-scale lies
(universalpsykopath loves what you've done with your hair., Wed 19 Oct 2011, 16:33, closed)

that's more or less the same answer
you get Googling, and unfortunately I get kinda glassy eyed reading that kind of solution.
(username failed moderation, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 17:19, closed)

Then I would suggest you stop trying to install linux then and find an os more suited to your attention span.

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Wed 19 Oct 2011, 19:04, closed)

Quite right
It's called Windows, or OSX.

This is pretty typical Linux talk.

"You can't get it to work, you're stupid".

Probably right, but having specced, designed, installed and maintained several large heterogenous transcontinental networks, being a CNE, MSCE and CCNA, I do know a little bit about how to set up a computer.

Linux is incomplete. That is the problem, it's not me.
(username failed moderation, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:08, closed)

Wow, just wow.
I thought you were trolling or trying to be clever.
Now it becomes clear that you think because your hardware manufacturer doesn't like Linux, or you're to stupid to understand how to install it, it's never used and works for nobody.
Being proud of ignorance is its own punishment.
.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 13:34, closed)

Well,
my hardware manufacturer doesn't provide drivers. Neither, it seems, do any Linux developers.

But if that means my Hardware manufacturer doesn't like Linux, so be it. It's HP, so it's not like they're some little tinpot outfit.

Now, where were we? Oh, that's right. I can't use Linux, becuase there are no drivers for WIFI.

I'm not too stupid to resolve this - maybe I'm lazy, but writing my own drivers seems like a bit of a faff. I'll use Windows instead.
(username failed moderation, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:28, closed)

I installed
windows 7 on a work PC, not only were there no wi-fi drivers, it didn't even install bog-standard ethernet drivers so I could get to our network and install the wi-fi driver. This was a Dell - so again, not a tin-pot company around the corner.
(dchurch bah, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 17:48, closed)

But I'm pretty sure you got it
solved in the end, and I doubt it took very long.

With a Linux problem, you run the gauntlet of a) forums where a bunch of skript kiddies simply can't answer a simple question without trying to impress you with their deep understanding of the OS itself, for which read incomprensible and irrelevant garbage, or b) shit flinging chimps like we have here, who also can't answer a simple question, and hide that fact by telling you you're stupid, and it's your own fault.

Result is always the same - Linux has a very low market share, becuase it's just not actually very good, or very easy to live with.
(username failed moderation, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:12, closed)

It's because
they are queueing up outside a shiny store for the latest & not-so-greatest, overpriced, made for chinese minimum wage, shiny thing.

Or they are too busy weeping and wailing and gnashing teeth over the death of the one true messiah unpleasant bloke.

Or they can't type and just use the clicky thing with a string...

Or it might be another reason. I'm unsure. Sorry I can't help more.
(SausageWarrior destination Zululand, come on boys jump in the van, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 9:29, closed)

How come some people on the internet haven't noticed that
Mac vs. PC arguements stopped being amusing around a decade ago?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 9:31, closed)

that's because you're too old.
maybe they stopped amusing YOU 10 years ago, but I can carry this on all day.

Mac vs PC is easy trolling territory. Linux is even simpler, becuase it's a fundamentally poor product, so the tards can't defend it.
(username failed moderation, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 9:36, closed)

www.techdigest.tv/pcmaclinux.jpg
( M o D, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 9:52, closed)

.
www.theinternetpics.com/old/linux_nylug_booth.jpg
(username failed moderation, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 11:09, closed)

Yes, I am old,
and I certainly wouldn't argue that Mac/PC trolling was difficult, so you probably could do it all day.

Doesn't make it any more amusing, though, but bonus points for dragging linux into it, I suppose.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 13:33, closed)

Thank
you.

Even after I clearly say I'm trolling, some Linux goon is still getting all arsey about it.

On the other hand, trolling or not, it is a peice of shit. At least the desktop version is, server versions are quite grownup now, but you pay for those.
(username failed moderation, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 16:25, closed)

Ummm.
No. You don't.





Now if you would just place you credit card details here for verification please -
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Wed 19 Oct 2011, 19:07, closed)

Ummm.
Yes you do.
(username failed moderation, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:47, closed)

Ummmm.
I'm telling.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 11:54, closed)

Grass

(username failed moderation, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 12:24, closed)

How come I always have to help the designer in the office when their Mac fucks up
despite the fact that I go out of my way to having anything to do with the retarded one-button mouse bastard computers in the first place, and consider using one a cruel and unusual form of punishment?
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 10:35, closed)

Boss? Is that you?

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 11:45, closed)

Get back to work
I've spreadsheets to manage
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 11:53, closed)

Possibly because only 7% of computer users actually use Macs....
Also Apple controls what software you can use which, logically would lead to less problems, but also less flexibility.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 19 Oct 2011, 12:34, closed)

No they don't
they do it on Iphones, Ipdas and Ipods. But that doesn;t work anyway, it takes about 10 minutes to jailbreak, and install a pirate downloader.
(username failed moderation, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 13:04, closed)

I'd say this guy has something to do with it.

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Wed 19 Oct 2011, 19:12, closed)