Just came back from a computer enthusiasts group meeting in my city. Was the only one with a Mac there. Everyone using linux. Some guy comes up, a neckbeard, smells like wet trash, greasy hair, and starts going off about Linux. I tell him, Mac is superior in virtually every way. “But it isn’t free or open.” I whip out my XCode, compile an open source project. He’s speechless. “But you can’t customize it.” I whip out system preferences, change all my visuals on the fly. He’s stopped dead in his tracks. “But it doesn’t have a large selection of games. Look, I can even play windows games.” He opens wine, tries to play Civ III, it crashes. I open Star Craft 2, log into bnet and own some noob while he debugs wine. His jaw drops. I can tell he is getting so mad. “But, you can’t even do basic system administration through the command line.” He starts adding a user to his system. I whip out Terminal, and write a quick python script before he finishes adding the first user. I run the script and add 2000 users to my system. He did a double take. “Bet you had a hard time installing Python, it’s probably barely supported for your OS.” I explained to him that Python is included with every Mac system. He got so mad he left the meeting. I saw him ride away on his bike (it was probably 20+ years old). I jumped into my Audi and floored it, speeding past him. He fell over from the car’s jet stream.


Here’s where it gets good: I felt bad, turned around, and said “Listen dude, I’ll give you a ride home, no worries.” I made sure to put a towel on the seat before he sat down. He gets in the car. I ask him where he lives. He says, “You know, just drive me to the Apple store. I think it’s time to get a Mac.”