When Mohib eventually finished with that machine, this is what he said: That seemed like a fair point, but it also seemed like a point with only one obvious solution – to stick with it longer and see if familiarity would help him to fall in love with Ubuntu. When I inquired why, he said that there’s no specific problem with Ubuntu, but he’s more familiar and comfortable with Windows because it is what he has always used. I checked in after a few weeks and Mohib told me that he’s finding it okay, but that he prefers Windows. I told him to see how it goes and if it doesn’t work out, then we’ll switch the machine back to Windows. So I signed up our Team Administrator, Mohib, as a guinea pig and gave him my Ubuntu laptop to see how he got on. I wanted someone else who would never normally have even considered Linux to try it out and give me feedback as to whether it meets their needs.
#WHICH IS BETTER FOR LINUX MAC OR WINDOWS SOFTWARE#
The only real limitation seemed to be the lack of professional design software such as Adobe Creative Suite and Sketch, which an average computer user should not need. The main issue that I could see was that less mainstream software is available for Linux, but my own experience with Ubuntu had proved that I could access almost everything that I needed including Slack, Signal, Chrome and Firefox as well as some good document and image editing software.
#WHICH IS BETTER FOR LINUX MAC OR WINDOWS PC#
Fast and secure like a Mac, but device agnostic like a PC and as an open source product, it’s more open and more affordable than both. I figured that Linux could potentially be a good option in providing the best of both worlds between Mac and PC. I’m talking about your typical computer user, someone who might not have heard of Linux or have given much thought to what an operating system is. What I wanted to know was whether Linux would be a good option for “normal” people. A few people in the Wholegrain team, including myself, have used variations of Linux over the years, but we’ve all been people who are at least a little bit towards the geeky end of the spectrum. My real curiosity has been around why Linux is nearly always absent from the debate. All operating systems have pros and cons for different users and different use cases and polarised arguments over which is better really don’t help anyone. In answer to the question “which is better”, my answer has always been “neither”. Despite what my friends and colleagues may think, I’ve always been agnostic in the Mac versus PC debate.
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