Macbook vs Windows?

[thomaschristeena]

Is it really difficult to use mac book? Friends is Mac book user friendly like windows or not. I have used windows, thinking of purchasing Apple Mac book . Please suggest is it easy to work on apple.

[kusti8]

Even thought this is an off topic discussion, it still has to somehow relate to the Pi.

But to answer your question, it's just an OS. You get used to it.

[Heater]

How can we know? Depends what "work" you want to do. Does the software you want to use run on a Mac?

[fruitoftheloom]

Is it really difficult to use mac book? Friends is Mac book user friendly like windows or not. I have used windows, thinking of purchasing Apple Mac book . Please suggest is it easy to work on apple.

http://www.computing.net

[Heater]

Just for giggles I pasted the OP's question into http://www.computing.net

No good. It then asks you to select the exact OS you are using. Which is no help in this case.

[fruitoftheloom]

Just for giggles I pasted the OP's question into http://www.computing.net

No good. It then asks you to select the exact OS you are using. Which is no help in this case.

Maybe not but it a general computer forum..........whatever !!!!!

Use Google would get more response but he-ho it is a non answer question.

I have friend who has 2 teenagers one will only use OSX and the other Windows, both will swear one is more user friendly than the other..

[Heater]

I have no idea really.

Never used a Mac, not since they went all BSD at least.

Until recently I almost never used Windows, Linux since 1997.

But I have been living with an MS Surface Pro 4 and Win 10 for a month now.

Guess what? It does everything I need. Chrome and Firefox work as well as they do in Linux. The Sublime editor works as well as it does in Linux. As do the Atom and MS Code editors.

Languages I need like Javascript under node.js work fine. As does C++ plus Qt or Electron.

I hardly know it is a Windows machine. Except it gives me grief connecting to some WIFI access points. Won't do it without turning WIFI off and on again, or rebooting.

I'm sure all of that stuff I do is as easy on a Mac as well.

Except...There are a few programs I need, or my boss tells me I need, that are Windows only.

[W. H. Heydt]

From my perspective, there is a very minor learning curve switching between MSWindows and MACOS. The two are very, very similar to an end user. I run into people who, as soon as you mention Linux (as in what the Pi runs) get all nervous and fearful. I point out that, if you can use *either* Windows or Mac, then Linux should look familiar and using the Linux GUI should be really rather familiar.

Fundamentally, a GUI (or, as it used to be called, WIMP) interface is pretty much the same no matter what the underlying OS is. All you have to do is experiment a bit to find out what minor differences and peculiarities (compared to others) it has. It is a *good* thing to learn how to use more than one GUI/OS because then you will start to understand the underlying principles and not get hung up on the differences. (The same general advice applies to programming languages...with your first language, you are learning to program as well as the specific language. With the second, and subsequent languages, you are learning more general principles of programming, plus that new language.)

[Heater]

GUI is one thing.

Provided all you want to do is get on the net and use a browser it makes little difference what you use today. My 'er indoors has been using my Linux machine to watch the online versions of local TV stations and do the Facebook things for a month whilst I have been away. she can hardly tell one OS from another.

But, when it comes to actually getting stuff done....

I have an IDE for Cypress micro-controllers that only works on Windows. There are many other such examples.

On the other hand, developing software goes much easier on Linux.

[mahjongg]

Way to much off topic, locking for now.