13th November 2016, 21:57
The first computer I remember having as a kid was a Commodore. 
The university I went to used macs, but when I got my first computer of my own, it ran windows. Maybe 10-15 years ago, when my last hp laptop failed, I looked into getting a mac again - and never looked back.
I've loved my mac. I still do. But I don't like the direction Apple is going. It feels like, now that they are popular, they've given up trying to make things for their users and are doing what they want to, no matter what. For instance, I don't like the latest trend for flat, grey & ugly - but what sent me looking for something else was that Apple ships that by default, and then shuts down every way that you used to be able to change things to suit yourself. I'm not a huge hard-core computer geek by any means, but I don't like being told I can't change anything any more either.
Everything's retina now. I don't want or need retina. Sure, it's nice, but it's also harder to fix yourself and worse for the environment. I don't want Apple to stop making them, but I am unhappy that there is no other option. I don't want to be forced to use the cloud or the App Store. (No, you're not yet - but it feels like it might not be too long before you are.) I decided to look for something else before I was.
I won't go back to Windows, so that pretty much left Linux. At least, if there are other OS options, I either don't know about them or they are far too esotoric for the likes of me. I can fiddle and tweak and I like learning new things, but I don't really want to run everything from the command line and compile my own kernal and whatever all else people do.
As for my dabblings in linux - I (very briefly) tried VMs of Mint Cinnamon, Mint KDE and Neon KDE before landing here at Maui. That's about it.
The university I went to used macs, but when I got my first computer of my own, it ran windows. Maybe 10-15 years ago, when my last hp laptop failed, I looked into getting a mac again - and never looked back. I've loved my mac. I still do. But I don't like the direction Apple is going. It feels like, now that they are popular, they've given up trying to make things for their users and are doing what they want to, no matter what. For instance, I don't like the latest trend for flat, grey & ugly - but what sent me looking for something else was that Apple ships that by default, and then shuts down every way that you used to be able to change things to suit yourself. I'm not a huge hard-core computer geek by any means, but I don't like being told I can't change anything any more either.
Everything's retina now. I don't want or need retina. Sure, it's nice, but it's also harder to fix yourself and worse for the environment. I don't want Apple to stop making them, but I am unhappy that there is no other option. I don't want to be forced to use the cloud or the App Store. (No, you're not yet - but it feels like it might not be too long before you are.) I decided to look for something else before I was.
I won't go back to Windows, so that pretty much left Linux. At least, if there are other OS options, I either don't know about them or they are far too esotoric for the likes of me. I can fiddle and tweak and I like learning new things, but I don't really want to run everything from the command line and compile my own kernal and whatever all else people do.
As for my dabblings in linux - I (very briefly) tried VMs of Mint Cinnamon, Mint KDE and Neon KDE before landing here at Maui. That's about it.