(edit) Disclaimer - The following message was said in the throes of angst :) please read lightly.

Simple and to the point.

I really love how you guys purchase a computer (and/or put an operating system on it) that is RARELY fully supported, and then moan and complain about how BOINC doesn't work for you. If you're so smart and know so much about computers to make that kind of decision then make your machine MAKE it work. That's why you decided to be different remember? You're SMARTER than all those stupid Intel/Windows guys, and don't you forget it. How could you possibly impugn YOUR ego by openly admitting that you couldn't get BOINC to work on your Linux distro or MAC setup? Surely it's not YOUR problem.. BOINC must be the problem! Of course! Anything else would imply how deeply and utterly stupid you are for FAILING to figure things out.

Now that I got that off my chest.. totally ignore this message, because I realize BOINC isn't perfect :) Carry on.

(edit) I'll jump back in when the postcount gets to 50 or 60.. that'll be about 40 minutes from now.. lol

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Actually, I would bet that 75% or more of the questions asked on the boards are from Windows users. The Mac-specific help areas that I monitor are _much_ less active than the Windows ones, probably even slightly less than the % of machines would indicate. And in general, Linux folks are far more knowledgeable about their systems and how to make things work. As far as BOINC itself goes, I run it on both Mac and Windows, and they both seem to be almost identical. Well, I'll take that back - my Windows box has the "can't connect to localhost" problem on startup at times.

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Actually, I would bet that 75% or more of the questions asked on the boards are from Windows users. The Mac-specific help areas that I monitor are _much_ less active than the Windows ones, probably even slightly less than the % of machines would indicate. And in general, Linux folks are far more knowledgeable about their systems and how to make things work. As far as BOINC itself goes, I run it on both Mac and Windows, and they both seem to be almost identical. Well, I'll take that back - my Windows box has the "can't connect to localhost" problem on startup at times.

Well that's the thing, It's not the ones that really do know what they are doing that annoy me.. I for one, really like linux :)

It's the people that buy a mac or install linux because they are trying to be "trendy" and then expect it to have EVERY BIT as much support as the windows faction, (or can't understand why every piece of software can't work on their OS) yet know absolutely nothing about computers.

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