   Dealing with OS fanboys?
  I'm lately being overloaded with a bunch of whiney OS fanboys in my direct environment. I told a few of them to stop comparing their favorite choice of OS against what other people are using, because most people tend to use the OS they are used to using(ie, Microsoft Windows variant).I also told them I don't care about their particular choice of OS nor do I care what they think of my choice of OS(Vista Business at the moment). Today was basically the moment that I snapped. This guy started again whining about how he was going to install Mac OS X on his x86 laptop. I told him 3 times before that I was ok with that, apart from the fact that he warezed Mac OS X. So, he begun over it again, and I decided it was punishment time  and send him this file over MSN: Apparantly he's insulted now... Not the best strategy I presume. Any ideas on how I can proceed to inform these people I do not care?Toolmaker   
  Just block them.Alternatively, split open their chest cavities and apply torsional force to their organs.   ;  Here's what you do: throw your dubs in the air, and wave 'em...   ;  I don't like fanboys in general, but don't you think being an OS fanboy is kind of sad on their part?It's one thing being a fanboy for a sports team or a console, but IMHO being an OS fanboy is one geek step too far.As for telling them you don't care, find something else that's infinitely less geeky and subject them to it, like football.  It might bring them round.   ;  I always like the fact that The first operating system they [Microsoft] publicly released was a variant of Unix.   ;Quote:Original post by ToolmakerI'm lately being overloaded with a bunch of whiney OS fanboys in my direct environment. I told a few of them to stop comparing their favorite choice of OS against what other people are using, because most people tend to use the OS they are used to using(ie, Microsoft Windows variant).I also told them I don't care about their particular choice of OS nor do I care what they think of my choice of OS(Vista Business at the moment). Today was basically the moment that I snapped. This guy started again whining about how he was going to install Mac OS X on his x86 laptop. I told him 3 times before that I was ok with that, apart from the fact that he warezed Mac OS X. So, he begun over it again, and I decided it was punishment time  and send him this file over MSN: Apparantly he's insulted now... Not the best strategy I presume. Any ideas on how I can proceed to inform these people I do not care?ToolmakerI find that stabbing in the face or neck region, is particularly effective.  But really.  Why do you care if you've offended him?  You've made your point about the subject via the image.  If he can't get that, and is whining, that's really his problem.  Wash your hands of it, put on some headphones and forget it.  He's obviously an idiot and you, you have better things to waste your time on.  If he goes out of his way to annoy you, then he's just being a prick and you have my permission to smack him upside the head.   ;Quote:Original post by ukdeveloperI don't like fanboys in general, but don't you think being an OS fanboy is kind of sad on their part?It's one thing being a fanboy for a sports team or a console, but IMHO being an OS fanboy is one geek step too far.I don't know, I mean, if the guy was a Linux Zealot then I would think its being too geeky, but Mac OS X? sounds more like buying the crap Apple PR comes with, I'll rather call it conformity, a kind of brand fanboyism.   ;  I totally know what you're talking about and feel the same way. Mac users don't see their OS as a tool to use, but as a way of life. I've never met a Mac user that didn't feel like this, every single one acted as if I had spit on their grandmother if I said I didn't like how something was done in OSX. Normally I can just block it out, but here at work it really gets on my nerves. Especially when people insist on using File Maker Pro since it's cross-platform. God I hate File Maker Pro...   ;  Just tell him, "There's more important things you could be worrying about than what OS you use.  Like some day having sex with a woman."   ;Quote:Original post by KwizatzI don't know, I mean, if the guy was a Linux Zealot then I would think its being too geeky, but Mac OS X? sounds more like buying the crap Apple PR comes with, I'll rather call it conformity, a kind of brand fanboyism.Or maybe OS X is just as good as all of the other fucking operating systems. I hop between all three systems pretty regularly and find people completely absorbed in one tool to be total bores. The only worse ones are those who have to attack some other party (brand fanboyism lol high five!) as a way to make sure everyone knows which side they are on.   