Yeah I am pretty sure windows has better driver support than linux or os x, could you post some proof or a source of it actually being linux?
http://www.zdnet.com/article/device-sup ... -vs-linux/Additionally every geek who at least sits daily in linux greatly appreciate drivers build in inside kernel and ability to easiely rebuild it with adding new/old compatible modules without much problems.
Oh because your father sat and managed to figure it out rest of world will too right?
Considering my father don't use computer much and i am only one in our family who ended up having 2 engineer titles in IT and resolving all problems, i am more than sure i can get random newbie and he will be good with chosen by me distro - installed from the box.
Most posts about it are from 2011-2014 so you're pretty safe from it if you buy it, also as you said, users can look up how to resolve those issues themselves right?
2011-2014 is case of error 1004, till this day, this time, there is great amount of issues what puts mac and their o'shit system way below even windows. I just take out issue of buying same app several times just because it is hardware binded and here we go - o'shit is done, same issue is with windows, it has just way less impact due way bigger apps database.
Regardless if the mac is under warranty, which they mostly are as long as you don't buy them from shady sources you can easily replace them or get them fixed.
Warranty do not cover your OS. In case of reinstalling / downgrading there is a fee because... it's apple.
he doesn't have a strong grasp on computing and doesn't even know that how to even begin looking up these things. He has no idea what even distro means therefore for him installing linux is nearly impossible in the first place, nor using linux at a fraction of its potential by using terminal commands or customizing it to his needs, but OS X is easy.
Mindblow... you just... mindblowed me.
In first university i saw SEVERAL issues where i saw a guy using linux, i asked him about packages, kernel etc and heared "friend told me its free, i saw in web that ubuntu/mint are good for newbies so i installed it because its free".
Pls, holy... just stahp blowing my mind now and showing linux as system extremely unfriendly for users and designed only for geeks/nerds because you just looks like laughing stock in eyes of pure linux users. I am serious, stop, you don't even know how wrong you are here.
It's right out of the box, there is nothing confusing about first launch, desktop has big buttons that resemble programs which is easy to grasp and so on. You can argue that OS X is worse, you can argue that linux performs better, you can argue that macs are overpriced but you can't argue that linux is easier to use to a typical person because that simply is not true.
Installing Ubuntu ends up to booting media, using Install icon and clicking next, next, next, next.... wait a bit - done. Same goes to Mint, same goes to Fedora, same goes to openSUSE etc. If someone know how to install a GAME in windows, he will deal with installing OS and don't come up with "but partitioning" - it's automatic including dedicated partition for user data which is just pinned up if you decide to switch / reinstall your distro.
Every most newbie friendly distro is OUT-OF-BOX prepared for gaming, web browsing, work with documents, video, audio and whatever you need for daily usage. It doesn't even require terminal configuration. Just install and here you have - system ready to use.
To end up this - you probably don't know one thing --> OS X = port from BSD --> BSD = Unix --> Linux (POSIX) = UNIX.
OS X = group of preinstalled software and GUI called Aqua based on Unix kernel.
Just for the record I am not gonna argue any further because you seem pretty immature and have a very strong bias towards apple hate which means you can't look at arguments clearly.
Hate against apple is not from nowhere and i am not only one in world unix/linux community who curse heavily for apple and their products. I can just assure you that i am not "one of this windows users" who follow "anti-apple fandom".
For me - as linux user (and also windows user) - main problem is with apple ToS and rules about shop and restricting it from good and powerfull free software. Everyone who digged into reasons know it's an "Apple", it Apple thing, they was always special, they are special and they will stay special until they change rules about their software managment. From my side - your knowledge about new linux distributions including installing progress, software and GUI comming out of box is pretty non-existant.
Anyway, was nice to talk with you, gl with apple.