How Fanboys See Operating Systems
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This is amazingly accurately portraying my experiences with my fellow students, fanboys/-girls of all kinds. Nice.
Awesome. Linux Fanboys are funny!
Haja! That is funny, I like the one where Microsoft is doing “you” in the ass, haha
1st! or not Linux ruls!!! All power to the penguins!!!
Joey, much of the the funniness here is obscured by a big ugly Flash ad. Which also obscures some your Google AdWords bar, oddly enough. FYI.
Awesome! a true reality as it is!
very true
linux fans think about microsoft
What slays me is the Mac as seen by Windows fanboys image. Look at that toy – it even has the little Wacom tablet to accompany the goofy keyboard. I’m pretty sure this how our IT department views us designers.
very true
linux fans think about microsoft
If you don’t like the ads don’t come to the damn site. I can’t stand whiners who complain about ads on free sites.
Quite quite true. Linux fanboy here.
Anne Onimo, Nothing like that happening here.
There’s no such thing as a “Windows Fanboy.” People who use Windows are willing to move, just not to Linux (As it stands now) or a Mac OS. Either that or they just don’t know what an operating system is (this is true for Mac users too).
Can I get this as a poster? : D
SO amazingly true it’s scary.
The thing with Steve Jobs holding wads of cash is kind of stupid, though… after all, Bill Gates is the richer man (although Apple’s recent success should change that soon) and Steve Job’s annual salary is (drumroll please)… one dollar per year! Look it up.
@Manhatan : i think that you don’t know win 7.. i am not willing to move from windows any time soon, i dont know the number, but i think i’m not alone
It would be nice if the linux row had pictures of some aspect of the operating systems themselves, although the current method does demonstrate the ideological bent of linux fanboys. It’s good, but I found it graphically lackluster compared to the other rows.
Wow Steve Jobs has a $1 Salary, but wait! What is this? 5.5 Million Shares of Apple? At the current price of 193.05 equates to 1,061,775,000 (Pretax obv.)
But whats that Scruffels? He owns 138 million shares of The Walt Disney Co?
Poor Steve, with his low salary I bet he can barely afford Ramen.
true! good one!
Brilliant!
LOL, it’s so funny !!
Haha funny! But i can’t get the picture bigger…
+1 – True! Reallity! Real!
http://www.dataswamp.net/colin/how_os_users_see_each_other.jpg
Higher resolution.
Isaac: Yup, that’s the original (4chan?) image — I cleaned up the typesetting and changed “fag” to “fanboy”.
@drumrobot I took that to mean that mac is too expensive. I’m a Linux fanboy all the way, and the way I see it is that Macs are nice, certainly way better than windows, but why shell out all the $$ when I can do all that and more for free? (I’m not a designer, so I’m not tied to proprietary apps…). The windows portrayal is funny, but I’d make it a clumsy brutish ogre doing you in the ass instead
Anyway, freakin hilarious. I want the poster too!
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/8534/macpclinux.gif
‘Windows Fans – Mac’ – couldn’t be any more true
Excellent.
It’s so true, every one of the windows and linux ones.
Same thing about linux users running a laptop ‘portal of computing power’ and the windows user running a multi monitor setup. Linux is a great unitasker, but if you’re a manic computer user that actually DOES have multiple large widescreen monitors, there isn’t much choice.
Sure linux would have the support for it, but the miracle of linux is that it runs, not that it performs tasks well. LOL
As the local computer guru, I laugh at the people that buy macs. Literally, laugh. They pay all that for the system and STILL have to buy a windows license.
Oh, also, http://www.dreamspark.com for free, legal licenses of microsoft software for students. No strings attached.
to the idiot complaining about ads:
1) It’s a free site, don’t shit where you eat (and you’re eating free stuff here).
2)there’s a plenty of Firefox extensions to block flash banners, ads, and so. So stop being a douche and learn2useinternet
@Wolvenmoon, know what you’re talking about, if you don’t mind.
Spot on dude!…. I know those mac-guys, they are boys with toys!
@Wolvenmoon
Have you ever used a linux box?
As per default you have 4 desktops that you can switch around in(and you can add more), where as windows has 1.
So you don’t need to spend money on many screens. But if you do you can easily extend these four to the four screens or you can do the windows thing and just expand one(dont know why you would though).
I love how people think virtual desktops are somehow a replacement for having multiple real screens!
Well done, being a mac-fag and linux-fag, I agree with both points of view, and my perception of how windows see us also seems spot on!
All the FUD from various *-fags, it is all FUD, never had a problem with things like multi-monitors (either mac or linux), and never had a windows license (or stolen copy). Sure Steve likes his $$$, but I’m willing to pay for something I see as good value.
As from my point of view, why would I want to get buggered by SteveB, for a BSOD? or even just steal a BSOD?
Wonderful image, although I somehow think that the Mac vision should be …whiter? (Not a Mac fangirl myself, but most Apple designs nowadays seem to go for pearly luminescence =)
this is actually good, i can see the picture from all the angles
At least “Microsoft” is giving “you” a reach-around.
Exactly.
nice pictures
I’ve used all three systems, and I can safely say that I’ve had the most trouble with Linux. It wouldn’t detect my wireless card, and when I finally got on the internet it took me 3 hours to get flash support, and even then it was choppy and had out-of-sync audio. I have used Windows for over 7 years (XP, Vista, 7), and I have gotten a blue screen of death exactly 3 times in my entire life.
a linux myself, well linux is the most difficult, but hey you wil finally LEARN how computers work, not wwhich button does what. (and if you are not intrested in that, use a mac. atleast don’t use windows)
spelling error preserverd. not native english speaker.
I’m a PC user and I find that quite funny. Come on you no-sense-of-humour people, it’s just tongue in cheek stuff.
I haven’t use Linux or Mac so I can’t bash for what I don’t know enough about.
well linux is the most difficult, but hey you wil finally LEARN how computers work, not wwhich button does what. (and if you are not intrested in that, use a mac. atleast don’t use windows)
‘Windows Fans – Mac’ – couldn’t be any more true Excellent. lol
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