My Windows XP Mod

[A Black Falcon]

Not to bash your opinion, but I'd just like to know why since they are both built on a similar base.

Because it runs on PCs... :p ... and doesn't have the MacOS look, I don't like that (windows don't all use a common topbar, there's a bottombar with a programs-list button, task-switching buttons, etc (you can put all kinds of stuff on it)... stuff like that. I just don't like the MacOS look, or how it works... I want a Start button for my application folders (though I'm not exactly a huge Start button fan, I'd rather use Tabworks... but I do like stuff like the quicklink buttons on the taskbar, and having Start-menu access to stuff like the Control Panel, Search, and some applications if I want to get at them more quickly.), a taskbar, etc...

As for Linux, it's pretty much configurable. My dad's PC (he uses Linux only (except for taxes, which have to be done in Windows)) has task-switching, showing if programs are running in the multiple windows (a cool feature), the Start-menu thing, quicklinks, a clock, and a some other stuff all on it...

What is it really that isn't compatible with Macs that we really can't live without. Yeah, the Mac game market is extremely poor when compared with PCs, but I wouldn't say PC games are essential to everyday life. I could very well say Windows PCs aren't compatible with Searchlight technology so you still have to hunt through folders or use a slow find command to locate files, but it doesn't matter because there are similar 3rd party search programs (although admittedly not as elegant) on Windows so you don't actually need to have Searchlight technology because you have something similar.

'Find' works... yeah, it takes a while, but it's quite effective, if it has something to find that meets your criteria... but that's not the point, application -- and game in particular -- compatibility is. Sure, PC gaming isn't a requirement to survive, but no gaming is... it's all done for fun. And it's a lot of fun, and there are a lot of great PC games that mac gamers just don't get. And there sure isn't much of the other way (Mac games PC gamers don't get). And this goes for both retail and freeware titles...

Why can't you do anything interesting without Windows? I think Pixar does a pretty good job of creating interesting things without using Windows.

I don't know why artists prefer macs, but if there's one thing I'm not, it's an artist... :)