Gizmodo - This weekend, my Dell laptop caught a virus that made it inoperable less than a week after a complete reformat and reinstall. So I bought a Mac laptop.
Yeah, I've used Windows machines for essentially my entire life, but switching turned out to be not that big a deal. Why? Because an OS isn't that important.
What's kept me from switching all these years isn't because I loved Windows or hated Macs. No, it was more a combination of laziness and self-identification. That's to say I didn't want to switch because I didn't want to deal with learning the ins and outs of a new OS, and also I identified myself as a "Windows guy" and didn't want to become a "Mac guy." Both reasons are essentially bullshit.
First, laziness. Switching from Windows to Mac or Mac to Windows or Windows to Ubuntu or whatever is easier than ever. There are differences between the operating systems to be sure, but none of them are that huge and none will have a real, fundamental effect on your experience. These days, most of what you do is online, or at least most of what I do is. When I switched, my feeds were synced online, as was my IM buddy list. Both my work and personal email accounts are online, as is my calendar. All of my files saved on my external hard drive work in, if not the exact same program, one that's very similar on the other OS. So really, it takes about a week of adjustment and then you're fine.
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