honestly i think part of the reason i’m a computer tinkerer now is my formative years were spent trying to run specific minecraft launchers, n64 emulators and other stuff on the family mac
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Yeah the mac or pc part doesn't really matter if youre curious and like learning. You can do a lot with mac. However on the surface I would say its a little more simplified.
As always, this is a relatively tech-knowledgeable platform. 99% of people didn’t know shit about computers before or after the advent of the iphone, and even before that, building a PC wasn’t on the radar for most.
OTOH fixing issues with computers, PC users would know way more than a Apple user because PCs had way more issues. Not really a flex, but certainly relevant to the discussion.
PCs had way more options, as it was an open hardware system sort of (any company could make the hardware). If your apple broke, there was just nothing you could do too.
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I hate Apple with all my guts, but in all fairness:
problem-solving skills surely don't correlate. Tech-illiteracy though...very likely does. By anectodal knowledge at least.
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I don't get the hype for Apple stuff. Custom built desktops or frankenlaptops look way cooler and it is a lot of fun to finally figure out what kind of gear you need.
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At 7yo my family got our first home computer. I had no idea how to use it properly, so I was constantly bricking OS on it which lead my father to constantly call in his friend to fix our computer. I bet constant ass whooping made me quickly learn how to undo my own mess. At 10yo I could reinstall win98 though floppy with NC
Or he could have spent that time teaching you instead of just…child abuse.
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I started on a Mac from Apple's bad days. The school computers were Windows and it felt like all the other kids had Windows computers at home. I think feeling like I was at the disadvantage probably had an effect on me that led me to Linux. Also the second family computer ran Windows ME, so...
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what operating system was that atari with a keyboard you could plug 2800 carts into
Atari OS, which could only be used to access the floppy drive. Atari DOS could be booted from a floppy disk. I never used one of these machines, I skimmed the Wikipedia article on Atari 8-bit computers..
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If they're implying that growing up with a Mac means worse problem solving skills because they don't go wrong as much clearly didn't experience MacOS prior to 10.
I'm studying computer science and while most use Linux, there are definitely more macOS user than Windows… so yeah, I don't really agree