See, the issue is that you nailed it at "some bizarre reason." And that's where you goofed -- Microsoft OSes don't have bizarre reasons for anything. They have -- NO -- reasons for their fuckups, and the fuckups are plentiful. It could be your UAC settings. It could just as easily be that your installation is fuckin' borked. Or it could be, as just mentioned, that there is no reason At. All.
On a Mac, you don't have those issues. They just don't happen. Why? Because the premium you pay on a Windows machine for hardware that isn't made to third-world standards gets paid into hardware components made in the U.S. and mated to an operating system that is specifically designed to use those components to maximum effectiveness. That's why a Mac wit 1Gb of memory outperforms a Windows box with 4Gb of memory. First, because the 1Gb of memory on the Mac is made in the U.S.A. and second because Apple squeezes every last 10th of a drop of juice out of that 1Gb, while Windows lets three quarters of it dribble down its fuckin' chin.
Forget what you've been told by beards. In fact, don't even listen to what The Saint told ya, but just get your hands on a Mac and spend a good 10 minutes not being bombarded with asinine failures for which there is no other explanation other than the fact that you're trying to use Windows, which is an operating system whose each and every single fucking improvement is based on aping what Apple's already done. Once you go Mac, you'll never --
fail to laugh your hindquarters off at Windows users who refuse to switch.
For serious.
recent convert to MAC. Just a few months ago. I could never ever go back to windows.
Windows = shit.
Macs = shit.
Install Ubuntu. It's free and it works well. You don't need a degree in computer science to run it, it's pretty user friendly and highly customizable. In other words...
Ubuntu = not shit.
And that's okay, nobody says we gotta see eye to eye on every little thing. But I will tell you this -- you just don't and can't know what you're missing 'til you've used one. Especially when the mouse is set to "one button" mode. Good God, there's just no way words can capture entirely how much more comfortable it is on the hand to use four fingers to click links than it is to use the one finger all off-kilter like a Windows mouse forces you to do.
And hey, maybe it's a difference in personal taste -- catch-all excuse for everything, right? For me, I've found that the Mac version of Safari can't be beat for web surfing, nor can most apps made for the Mac, owing to the...
Well, here's the thing. From a Windows user's point of view, Apple's app submission guidelines are just horrible, HORRIBLE and Nazi-like.
But y'know what? Once you get your hands on those apps that are accepted? You will never have to ask what the benefits of that model are. Not once, not ever. Swiss mother fucking watchmakers don't put their shit together as tight as Apple does.
And again, also as mentioned: Windows is for enthusiasts. OS X is for users.
Windows users, i.e. Enthusiasts sit down at their computers to fuckin' negotiate.
Apple users sit down at their computers with a god damned mother fucking mission. The Mac is their ally. You tackle a project on a Mac, and you've got the equivalent of an M1 Garand, and the Mac is right there with you in the creative foxhole. A Windows system will turn on you. It'll fuck you, right at the last second and for no reason What. So. Ever. A Mac will give you suppressing fire while you charge that project and take the enemy territory.
Whole different paradigm. Windows computers are for those who aren't really all that serious about getting much of... well... anything actually done.
Macs are for users who not only get it done, but toss a grenade into the workload's foxhole and slaughter the living fuck out of that project when it tries to escape.
Here's how the two react to a "problem."
Windows: "Ahhhh, we see you'll become a problem for the user and interrupt their productivity. Well, listen, we're going to make like we didn't see a thing. Slide right on through."
Mac is more like Bas Ruten: "What?! What, mother fucker?! You messing with my user?! I DON'T FUCKING THINK SO! *BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! NOW who's got a runtime error, sissy bitch! HUH?! NOW who's got an exception! ARE THOSE YOUR TEETH ON THE FLOOR, DIRECTX?! GET YOUR SISSY BITCH ASS OUT OF HERE!"
And now you know why everyone at the top of every business uses Macs. Because Macs do not take any shit.
ILLY IT DIDNT WORK
with windows 7 Bleurgh...
I would love to own Macs again, BUT THEY FUCKING COST TOO FUCKING MUCH.
Even the strippo iMac is priced too high.
Gotta love the selection of available software to run on Linux OS, not to mention the many pieces of hardware peripherals you can... oh wait, you cannot.
MORON.
Available software: Most software I have I got for free from the Ubuntu Software Centre, all of which is either comparable or superior software run on Windows. The only place Ubuntu fails software wise is games and with the amount of people getting fed up with Mircosoft's bullshit, this is rapidly changing.
Hardware: I've had no problem with any hardware at all. No, I lie, I still haven't figured out how to run a dual screen yet. But unlike Mircosoft, any problem has a solution waiting for you on the Ubuntu forums. I just haven't been arsed to search yet. Mostly I've simply plugged in whatever and it's worked, first time, no hassle.
Perhaps you should take your head out of your ars...no wait, you can't, it's wedged in there too tightly.
MORON.
I bought Windows' new anti-douchebag- moron software because I keep getting Luci error messages on TK. But when I installed my new anti-douchebag software, the entire internet disappeared.
What do you suppose that means?
User cp: "Saint Lucifer hasn't made any friends yet."
Awwww. Keep trying Buckeroo. You'll get there.
Or probably not, actually. Mostly because you suck, but then there's that odor too.