Are We Fans or Fan[atics]?

28 Aug 2009

Ok not a Windows vs Mac vs Linux or Nokia vs Apple vs Sony Ericsson or iPod vs Zune post, but you get the point what I am talking about.

Many of us have our own favorites and agreed it is the best and it beats everything out there, but that is only according to you and for your own IMHO, why start out a fight because someone else likes something else.

Well seriously the differences between people’s choices are making them more of a fanatic and less of a fan, being so obsessed that we can’t even take a little bit of backlash with a pinch of salt.

So when a Apple fanboy whips out his Mac book and types in a single sentence saying Windows 7 sucks, hundreds of windows fan kick start their Windows 7 and go after the Apple guy, it works vice versa and is not just applicable for OS, the same story will be seen between the cell phone wars.

I had my own problems but have seriously toned it down and enjoy having a friendly banter rather than you know bashing something out of the league, I let others do that and will continue letting them to that.

Ok so this is my analysis about things, I bolded the my analysis because it is mine, everything after this is only my analysis and no one else’s, so if you are here to criticize please leave, respect other’s views and don’t start a war in the comments form.

My 2 and half cents on the Fan[atics]

Apple Fanboys – Well I am not a huge Apple fan and I have my own reasons for them, but Apple fanboys are really bad, they don’t really appreciate their own product, they just love to bash other products and say bad things about them.

The most common thing you will see them saying is a windows product is #fail, or they will worry about the windows 7 pricing saying it is too high, when you can buy 2-3 laptops with windows 7 preloaded for the price you can buy a Macbook Pro.

Microsoft Fanboys - Microsoft fanboys do not see anything other than Microsoft beyond their eyes, they are too busy with Microsoft stuff that they have closed their eyes to everything that is happening around them.

Ask a Microsoft fanboy about Linux and they will act like they have been living in hibernation for last 2000 years or whatever. A Microsoft fanboy will get very infuriated if you say one bad thing about MSFT products, they really can’t take criticism in the lighter vein.

Linux fanboys – Well these are the guys who think they are supercool personalities that did the world a favor by using Linux, comeon there is no unity within the Linux community itself, other than being Microsoft bashers, these guys have 100zillion distros, so understand the infighting within the community itself.

While some are fedora fans and some are ubuntu fans some are red hat fans and so on, but their one common goal is to destroy windows which ain’t happening in next 50 years at least.

And yes Linux fanboys think that they are smarter than the rest of the world, in fact they are arrogant to the core, case in question one of my friends in a very good position in a very big company told me this;

These guys who promote Linux as a proper solution are cheap bastards, they can’t afford to buy something, so they just bitch about how everything else is costly, if the whole fucking world went open source, we can kiss goodbye to the god damn economy, shouldn’t those guys work for free then we would get work done for absolutely free, bloody double standard mofus charge for what they do and then say that everything should be free.

Well some of the statements are not mine, but I am not a Microsoft, Mac or Linux fanboy, I enjoy using everything that is available for the features they provide and where they will help me in what I want to do, not because I think something is better than something else.

What about you? No bashing please.

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