jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I wonder if the general consensus is that people who use Macs are smarter. When I misspell a word in Windows, I can click on it and see choices for the correct spelling. When I make a typo (Yes, a typo, not a mistake ) on my Mac, it doesn't give me choices. It's as if it knows I'm smart enough to realize that I made a typo, and it points that out so I can correct it.

The other possibility is that Windows is better than the Apple OS, and it offers more to its users.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Smarter at what?

Windows users are smarter at using the infrastructure of the computer. Mac users can't because Apple dumbs down the system to hide it from the users.

Mac users get at least some knowledge of unix commands, less common on Windows.

BebuLamar

I think so Jerry as I know how to use Windows but not a Mac. I found Mac is very difficult to use.

kymarto Loc: Portland OR and Milan Italy

The really smart people all use Linux

BebuLamar

I don't find Linux is that hard to use although I don't use it often. The Mac is hard to use in my opinion.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Sounds like a Setting issue to me…

You can always select a word, left-click on it, and look it up.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Interesting. I used a Mac at home and a PC at work for years, and I always found the Mac inherently easier to use, navigate, etc. That’s why I am still a Mac fan, but to each his own.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Well, it's definitely different. Apple could learn a few things from Windows - like adding a PrintScreen key.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Mac users typically use screen capture and edit the capture in Preview before choosing a file type and saving or printing.

I had many PCs, and Print Screen seldom worked on half of them.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Or like saving window focus. Currently if you are focused on window A and move focus to window B, then close window B, Windows returns focus to window A. Mac has nothing with focus.
Also, clicking on an icon on the toolbar opens an app. Clicking on the icon again in Windows minimizes the app. Clicking on the icon in Mac does nothing. It's nice to be able to use clicking on the toolbar to display an app, then turn it off and display the previous app, then click again and display the app again. Makes it easy to compare things in different apps without moving the mouse.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

One thing people miss about the whole Mac/Windows thing is that while they are both operating systems that do mostly the same things, they do some things in different ways. You can set up either one to work *somewhat* like the other, but they are not the same! There are features of each I like, and features of each I don't like. I used both on my desk at work from the late 1980s until 2012. The Mac ultimately won my attention because it never got in my way. Windows was only necessary because corporate said so. Fortunately, they skipped WinNT, Win Vista, and Win 8...

Windows users struggle with Macs, in part because they are so used to doing things manually, and in part because they like to tinker. If you are a free-thinking, intuitive sort, you may prefer Macs. If you are an engineer or a very logical thinker, you may prefer Windows. Each platform has a "personality."

Macs generally can be considered "information appliances." With Apple Silicon, you buy EXACTLY what you need, up front, because you CANNOT upgrade the internals, later. You can *replace* SOME parts, like keyboards and batteries and screens, but adding memory or storage cannot happen at a later date. Those are wave-soldered in place at the factory. That annoys the $#!t out of tinkerers and those who like to customize. It's a great blessing for those who just want to plug it in and work.

One note: Microsoft has now given their blessing to Parallels Desktop emulation software, which lets you run just about any version of DOS, Windows, or MacOS on the Intel Macs. Parallels lets you run Windows 11 for ARM and some older versions of MacOS on Apple Silicon Macs. Some Linux distributions will run on Apple Silicon Macs, natively.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Smarter than what/who???

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Ah, yes, those blasted incomplete comparisons do leave one wondering, don’t they? Smarter then Einstein? Smarter that a dirt clod?

Peterfiore Loc: Where DR goes south

In truth, really smart people don't need computers...

whfowle Loc: Tampa first, now Albuquerque

For me, the issue is which OS thinks the way I think. Computers, at their core, are really quite similar, but the OS is what everybody is talking about. I use both depending on where I'm at. So, for me, it comes down to two basic things: 1)how often I need to fix something and 2)who is going to pay for it. I'm glad that, at work, I have a whole team of techs who can fix anything. At home, I'd hate to spend a lot of my money fixing the beast. So, I'm a Mac guy at home and a PC guy at work. The Mac just gets out of the way and seldom breaks down. Both my Macbook and my iMac are over 8 years old and they still get the job done. Both are just platforms that support the programs I use daily. The real juice is the various programs I need to do my job. I fight with the programmers every day to fix problems there so I am more efficient. At home, I get to select the best programs myself.