I don’t agree with you on your opinion that what computer OS you use is unimportant. Maybe from a (really naive) technical point of view it its, but there are cultural, economic and social components that are important.

The struggle of the free software movement for a society that relies upon open and free solutions for software and culture is really an important one. We live more and more in a society that is controlled by computers. All information is shared through computerized paths, such as the Internet. Every piece of knowledge, culture and entertainment, such as books, movies and music, is being stored in computer media. An important part of our relationship with others is made through e-mails and the like, and even our relationship with the government or our bank is being increasingly moved to electronic means.

Our access to all of the above is crucially determined by the software we have available. If we let companies like Microsoft or Apple dominate the software market, they will dictate what format all of our information should be encoded in, and what means we should use to access it. More fundamentally, they could end up deciding (maybe following the government’s orders) what we can read/hear/know, and when. They could force us to pay for unnecessary “upgrades”, to be able to access the very same information we could read the week before. They could choose to show us the “truth” they wanted.

Not to mention that proprietary software can (and has been proven to, in the past) contain not only unwanted bugs, but even malicious backdoors such as those Windows had (has?) so that third parties (such as the NSA) can access your computer and all your sensible (and private) data in it.

And if we wanted to analyze the software tools they are providing us, we could even go to jail for just trying to. We would have to let them abuse us!

You really deem that unimportant? I don’t.

I’ve never used OSX, simply because I’ve never had the hardware or the chance to do so. Also, because I just can’t be bothered learning a whole new way of learning to use the computer, when I have no need to.

From what I’ve seen of friends who have it, it’s just a different way of getting stuff done, not as amazingly rock-solid as all the fanboys would have you believe, and those who use it seem to be quite satisfied with it. If the chance arrives, I’d learn it, if not then I’m more than pleased with Linux at the moment.

Of course, I’d absolutely love to buy a Macbook, completely wipe Boot Camp, and dual boot Ubuntu and XP on it. Just to make some fanboys rage ;)

Also, arrogance is not desirable in general, but this doesn’t mean that the arrogant can not be right. Assuming that would be a strawman argument. I said that I couldn’t care less for Mac OSX, and that’s true. If other people is happy with it, it’s fine with me.

Acting like you are superior to other human beings because of the operating system you use, or brand-snobbery, is heresy. And is not something just limited to users of one OS ;)

Enjoy your Macbook! If I didn’t have my Dell Vostro 1200, I’d probably get an old iBook G4 myself.