OS Fundamentalism

IT people seem to really love their operating systems and some not only love their own but they have a lot of dislike for others. So much sometimes it's a bit scary. But really, whats the point? Why does it matter enough to get mad about? One isn't "right" and the other is "wrong" although Shiite's and Sunni's may take issue with that statement.

When there were was just the one computer, it was so unwieldy and expensive, people were just happy they didn't have to do math manually all the time. But soon enough, people could take them home and like Chevy and Mopar, Democrat and Republican, regular double double or animal style, Betty Ford and Promises Malibu, people came down hard on one side or the other. And whoa to anyone who dare say anything different.

The funny thing about the OS "wars" is that it's really just persoanl a perception from what side a person is on. The LINUX folk just like ther system and find the other ones silly and less useful. PC users like what they have but are happy to complain about issues that they live with but Mac people, it's a little touchy there. They really dislike PCs. It's almost important to hate PCs in order to like Macs. But for PC people, that just doesn't resonate. In fact most PC people like macs if only for the nice design and UI.

It's sort of like the LA and San Francisco "thing" People in SF HATE LA and people from LA. It's part of their culture to hate all things LA. On the other hand, people from LA, they could care less about San Francisco and most have little or no opinion at all other than "Isn't it that place up therewhere my Gmail account lives?" It's not even part of the consciousness. But when you consider people in LA wear Ugg boots with yoga pants, you can sort of see why.

In the end what ties IT people together on this is that we all love technology in all of it's shapes and sizes and that should be enough.