A Mac has invaded my house!

[hunter]

58. Okay, Windows is like a car. I hate cars.

Linux is like a helicopter.

If someone gave me a Mac I'd be sorely tempted to install Debian on it. Forget OS X whatever. It would probably be best if I simply gave the machine away to someone who wanted a Mac rather than offend the Mac faithful.

I'm not interested in Windows or Mac software. I won't touch either sort of machine unless someone is paying me.

The last new computer I bought was a $35 Raspberry Pi. It runs Raspian, a derivative of Debian.

Before that, a long time ago, I once bought a shop-worn 386 for $300. That was my last new desktop computer. Since then there are so many people discarding computers that have been bogged down and rendered useless by Microsoft updates and other cruft, that I don't buy computers anymore, I find them, overwrite Windows, install Debian, and I'm good to go.

For people who don't want to learn anything about computers, people who mostly use their computers for web browsing, email, and light writing tasks, the most foolproof computer is a Chromebook, not a Mac. Chromebooks are inexpensive too.

Our local high schools are giving Chromebooks to all the students. The teachers and IT people love them, they are *that* difficult to screw up. (If anyone can screw up a computer, it's high school kids and teachers.)