Mac look alike?

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 03:23:10PM +0100, Odd wrote:
> 
> We were actually talking about hardware. But if you want to
> talk software, Apple has just as many security flaws in their
> OS as Microsoft. Just look at the massive amount of holes
> Apple is fixing with their patches. Also, Apple controls the
> entire ecosystem from their machines to the OS and drivers.
> The amount of 3rd party hw devices that Windows has,
> compared with MacOS, will of course lead to more failures.
> But that's the price of choice, something that's very limited
> in comparison on the Mac platform.

Maybe there is a sub-thread that is hardware only, but I thought we started
with window manager and making Ubuntu look/act like a Mac.

In any case, the situation I was thinking about was recently I had the
pleasure of discovering the owner of our business's laptop had 300+ viruses,
despite having anti-virus installed. We wound up wiping the drive,
reformatting, re-installing OS and applications, and she wound up changing her
banking account passwords, etc. This was a relatively "knowledgeable" user.
Windows is an accident waiting to happen for many people. Not for everybody,
and not to say Apple is perfect, but the nightmares on Apple are fewer than
the nightmares on Windows. 

-- 
Hal