Are you a Windows user?

jakoblodwick:

It seems like most Tumblr users are Mac people. But there must be some PC/Windows Tumblrs out there. If you are a Windows user, can you explain why in a reblog?

If you are a former Windows user, like me, you can still participate. Just reblog why you used a PC before you switched.

In my case, I thought PCs were the real deal, while Macs were slow and for posers. Two years ago, the most serious computer users at my company (Kunal and Andrew) were like, Yeah, Macs are so much better. Reluctantly, I tried one and immediately fell in love. I soon enjoyed being a computer user without needing to be a computer expert anymore.

I’m a former (but I cheat on my Mac at work all the time) Windows user. I used Windows for pretty much the same reason I think everyone else starts out on Windows, it seems like the logical thing to do because it is the norm.

I switched because I bought a first gen iPod. Why I bought such an expensive toy, I can’t quite recall, but it was cool. I took my iPod everywhere and it supplied the soundtrack to my last year of high school, I listened to it when I rollerbladed home by the canal in downtown Ottawa from my pseudo-employment at the neighbourhood epicerie.

To this day, some Le Tigre songs remind me of walking certain streets, past snow-covered hydrants at Christmas on my way to the United Way volunteer gig my parents hooked me up with during my gap year.

I was still using my IBM Thinkpad 600E (with a whopping 6 gig HD) to update my iPod using emulator software but it was inconvenient, and time-consuming. I planted the seed that what I really wanted for a graduation gift was a new iBook (but the candy-coloured ones struck me as being kind of garish). The ibook never materialised, but I did end going to Russia and Finland for three weeks that summer before I headed off to the first of three universities (but that’s a story for another time).

I dropped out of McMaster within a month of starting my studies (9/11, stress, not knowing what I wanted, and all that jazz) and arrived home to my father’s house to decompress. I didn’t tell my mom that I had dropped out because we were in the midst of our 7 Year War. I resolved to spend my gap year living alone (and eventually with roommates who worked at RIM) across the Rideau Canal from my father, conveniently finding a 3BR across the street from my favourite childhood museum and around the corner from a gym.

My dad helped me move my stuff and presented me with a gleaming white computer as a housewarming gift that I still have and use to this day.

I’m on the verge of an upgrade but now I’m wrestling between the MacBook and the MacAir (because I don’t really use my optical drive that much - that’s what 6 years of not having a DVD/CD-R drive will do to you). 

Source: jakelodwick

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  1. puzzler reblogged this from ladynasty and added:
    If you are a former Windows user, like me, you can still participate. Just reblog why you used a PC before you...
  2. melanyouth reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    I always think of Macs as being the machine for people doing computer-based creative work, Linux for full-on geeks (who...
  3. ladynasty reblogged this from livejamie and added:
    When my computer (which I’ve had for three years) breaks,...open the side, pop out the...
  4. livejamie reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    Because I don’t let an operating system define who I am as...enjoy building/upgrading
  5. theopie reblogged this from twistedfork and added:
    It seems like most Tumblr users are Mac people. But there must be some PC/Windows Tumblrs out there. If you are a...
  6. monkeytypist reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    mate who used to work...carwash. He told me once that whenever somebody brought in
  7. organicalgorhythm reblogged this from maybe-not and added:
    Linux in 2004 when...was sick of windows dying once a month.
  8. andrewdangerlove reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    typically self-absorbed, arrogant pricks. Have...user push or defend
  9. jaycruz reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
    I’ve been a PC/Windows user since forever. If I have to answer why, well because their cheaper. There has always been...
  10. saidmichael reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    Linux ftw?…sigh.
  11. peterwknox reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    were both instrumental...my switch from PC to Mac. In college I had
  12. lolorly reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    am currently a windows user. I’m actually saving up...a mac. I’m not THAT close but not...
  13. paulm reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    I recently switched to...and love it, but this is the third time I’ve switched. Before OS...
  14. yasmary reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    web+/php developer. I learned how to code in Dreamweaver 4, and back then Dreamweaver for Macs sucked (actually
  15. wizkid reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    user. I am also not...Mac user (oh, they...don’t care). I am...
  16. edscoble reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    talk about your operation system...relationship with, rather than a tool, as it should’ve...
  17. golden-and-delicious reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    My first computer was an iMac. I hated that hunk of shit. Then I got...had that...
  18. alohanico reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    (but I cheat on my Mac at work all the time)...user. I used Windows for pretty much the...
  19. theshalom reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    bit halfway. I’m writing this from...shiny new iMac, but “my computer” is
  20. throughtheprism reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    just don’t have
  21. ipat630 reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    I guess my reason for being...this iMac (just three months old now!) was much the sames as...
  22. ruhi reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    ‘classic’ way of getting reblogs: ask questions! And here...am…not answering
  23. burn reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    PC, but my PC is my main [desktop] computer, and my Macbook I have because there...laptops...
  24. twistedfork reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    yep, i use both mac (osx)...vista). i’m dependent on both for getting work done.
  25. chvnx reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    because I am familiar with...and honestly have no real need to switch to
  26. jeremyduncan reblogged this from kevinmosley and added:
    Same here. I just got done ordering my first Mac. I hope it is better, because it sure costs a lot more.
  27. franksino reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    windows user because...family has been using it since our first computers. i have used...
  28. siddman reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    Macs don’t offer me anything special. I’m...the freedom to download or buy anything. Mac...
  29. biola reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    because i dont have any money to buy...only reason i want
  30. fuckinnerd reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    I use windows because it’s easier to find software to download and it has...larger gaming...
  31. mfs reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    read Jakob`s original post that I kinda misinterpretated, I have a bit more to add to
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  33. mfs reblogged this from desaturated and added:
    I make Michael`s my explaination too, adding something that 90% of Tumblrs cannot state for. I used apple II, I bought...
  34. wewereborntosin reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    I use windows because there is no reason for me to waste the money on purchasing a mac. Sure, I’ve used them and I think...
  35. desaturated reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    user primarily because I am...software developer. I could probably get by with
  36. amwelles reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    My parents bought...was more or less forced to use them. I got to use my first Mac
  37. atari reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    I’ve had this empty tumblr for a while, unsure of how to start. I guess it’s fitting that I do so with a reblog. The...
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  39. lizisntfunny reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    Four years ago I didn’t even know what...Mac was, that’s how computer ignorant
  40. caz reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    I’ve never owned...Mac… I quite simply cannot afford one. Here
  41. anjapepunkt reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    I’ve always been...Dad got me a computer,...to decide what...
  42. bhell13 reblogged this from shawnblog
  43. skopek reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    In then end I’m using the OS to do something else. The best operating system on the planet wouldn’t
  44. andynotsilver reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    The answer is quite simple. I am...poor college student who wishes he had
  45. dzys reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    am still using Windows because
  46. ofcourse reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    They’re awesome, but too expensive...know someday I’ll own one.
  47. firerobincurrent reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    90s, I was force-fed...PC — mostly through school, but mainly because I just didn’t know...

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