The Mac OS X is a great OS. It comes bundled with some great hardware built into some fabulous design. The apps available for Mac OS X are far better than their Windows counter parts. So obviously, a lot of people are amazed by it.
The wise owls obviously either decide to go ahead and buy an Apple product for themselves, like this author did, or they decide to stick to their current OS thinking the MicroLord will churn out a better OS for them, yet knowing deep inside that it will be just another resource hungry monster which will render their slightly old hardware useless.
Ofcourse some choose to ride the path which leads to the Open Source Community. Many have chosen to use this and are wonderfully happy with it.
But then, there a separate breed of nerds who hack their way into the Mac OS X to make it run on any hardware. Now, many are already doing this effectively. But when some people decide to try their hand at Mac OS X just because they can, without thinking things out, things get nasty. It is often seen that they do something awfully wrong to their machines and then blame Mac OS X for being crappy OS, obviously ignoring the fact that it was not made to function in the way they intend to.
Take a look at the following conversation I recently had over IM. This dude got hold of a Mac OS X DVD from some source, installed it on his system and then starts blaming it.
Him: dude Him: dude Him: dude Him: dude Him: dude Him: dude Him: dude Him: dude Him: dude Him: dude Him: dude Him: dude Him: dude Him: dude Him: hel Him: help Him: help Him: help Him: help Him: help Him: reply man Me: Yes ? Him: I am screwed!!! Him: Installed Leopard Him: now Him: Resolution is fucked up Him: 1024*768 hai Him: instead of 1600*1050 Him: kaise theek karu??? Me: Can’t change it ? Him: nop Him: the only option is 1024*768 Him: in system preferences->display menu Me: (May be the) Graphics drivers are missing Him: shit Him: kaise install karu?? Me: There’s no way you can do that now, I think. Me: Google (it), I don’t think it’ll help much though. Him: SHIT SHIT SHIT Him: and what about Him: Vista and XP? Him: vista says winload.exe missin Him: and XP says ntldr missin Him: if i use the Cd to repair Him: then Mac will go Him: away  Me: Of kors Me: I told you in the very beginning Me: This is not how Mac OS X was made to run Me: It will be a big mess up Him: crap Os  Him: i need vista to run Him: damn Me: lol… blaming the OS for your mistake ? Him: Apple should have allowed installation of graphics card driver!!! Me: Why ? Do people can install in on their PCs ? Hell no. Him: man Him: how to Him: shutdown a mac Me: Click on the Apple Logo at the top right Me: Second last option Him: grr Him: cant see it due to reso  Me: lol Him: I am screwed like shit  Him: sis needs to use pc tommorrow moring Him: for taking out printouts Me: nice man Me: great decision Him: man Him: i need to copy Him: 2 files to 2 diff partitions Him: but leopard says Him: partition cant be modified Him: ;-s  Me: Partitions ? Leopard has no partitions Him: dont tell me even this is not possible  Him: man I have a Vista and XP partition na Him: tell tell Him: ………. Me: Leopard doesn’t support NTFS write, I think. Him: who the hell created this CRAP OS!!! Me: Riiiight
So, who’s to be blamed here ?