badbrad17
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You won't get any name calling from me. Macs definitely are a bit less maintenance, but we routinely still do have to do a clean and reset on ours every couple of years. I rarely have to do that on my PC anymore, but sometimes I do just to get a fresh start and reorganize. The one thing I have noticed is that "most" Mac users tend to be less broad in their list of software which tend to minimize crap that gets installed. In our office and most Mac users I know just use a lot of pre installed programs along with MS Office and the Adobe suite and that's about it. The list of available software isn't as big so there less problems. I know there are others that go beyond this, but most don't. PC users install all kinds of crapware which causes issues.Different strokes, I guess. I worked, played and developed on Windows PCs for about 20 years. About 7 years ago, I switched to Macs, and my life has been much easier. I no longer need to reload the OS every year or so to clean out the cruft, and my experiences with the OS panicing have been almost non-existant. I have never in seven years run into a situation where I needed my OS discs because the computer wouldn't boot. I haven't run a virus scanner in seven years, and I have had no issues at all.
I know a lot of people who like to trash the Mac environment, but its almost always people who have never used it, so I have trouble taking their opinion too seriously.
And before anyone bothers to call me some sort of name, I switched from iOS to Android two months ago so you are going to have trouble with getting a fanboy label to stick.
As for viruses there are more surfacing for Macs now that they are gaining more popularity so don't take it for granted based on the last decade.
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