Why I’m Switching Back to Windows XP from Mac OS X

I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND MAN.

TOTALLY.

BAHA you almost got me Chris. April fools!!

April Fool’s again… Come on, Chris ;-)

I totally hear you Chris…that’s why I am going back to Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. Baseline TCP/IP stacks? Who can beat that? Thank you for being a leader in this movement…

Your kidding, right?

Another great April Fools.. good one ;)

April Fool’s to you, too. ;-)

Chris this is an april fools fools right?

Because I was seriously thinking about switching to mac and they cost a lot of money for a student so can you just confirm, as I am not going to bother if its that much of a hassle, maybe get a Dell XPS instead.

thanks

Im switching back to xp today aswell but from vista but why have you gone against Apple all of a sudden? first the iphone now osx to be honest i don’t care, i don’t like macs or osx, could it just be another April fools? i don’t think so for some reason,

April Fools!

HaHaHaHa very funny april fools joke chris, made me laugh def!d

:D…..i’m getting to the point that every blog posts for today are april 1 jokes ?!?!?!

I know this isn’t true… April Fools!

Chris, it’s gotten to be a little much. The way you act satirically about Windows is a little much. You need to move on and get a life. I don’t know how many videos you have done trying to prove Mac OS X, and that’s fine - but please just shut up about it already? I mean it’s the same thing said over and over again. It’s a personal preference, so leave it at that. There’s no reason to be facetiously trashing one versus the other… It’s just gotten to be a little lame.
Hope you can get it over,

-Anonymous

Another Lame Pirillo Joke

Good one, Chris, and not the slightest bit believable!

As I am also a recent Mac convert from XP, I know that it is impossible to wanna go back full time… though I use XP in addition to OS X.

David in Athens, Ohio

wow. is this suppose to be some april fools joke. I mean is this even practical. I don’t even now what to say… Woah.

hahahaha, april’s fools!!!!

nice try Chris. but, not so fast. I call SHENANIGANS!

This better be an April fools trick

Chris please do not switch mac will do you much better!

I personally never did care for Mac OS at all. I love windows xp, and vista, but xp seems to just run better than Vista, but Microsoft is working out the kinks. I have 3 computers and all have Vista (2 ultimate, and 1 premium). Nothing works on a Mac! EVER!

Okay, so just in case all this is real.

Keep streaming because… hmm.

Well, see…
Okay, keep streaming because:
1. I just got here. ;)
2. Most of the time you do some pretty humorous things.
3. You stop streaming, you will become less popular most likely.
4. Most likely this is an April Fool’s Day joke, so you probably aren’t stopping anyways.
5. I and everyone in IRC says so.

WOW your really going back to windows i thought that mac was for you!
well what can you really do when your a geek you just need your software its not possible to run everything on a mac. i am i big fan of mac and I’m dying to get one but what can you do the thing that is stopping me is getting to well know to the windows software like you said chris we need windows. we can wipe it out of our geek lives. without windows many thing would not be possible for us geeks and normal users to. but sometimes the same goes for mac, without a Mac somethings can’t be done. to find software for a windows machine is very easy and fast. all you have to do is go on the internet and find it on Google or another software site. with a mac most of the things you must buy. I’m not saying that mac doesn’t have free software i know it does but most manufactures do not make software that runs on windows for Mac. now I’m not a mac hater as i said before I’m a big fan but windows it what we need. the people who are running macs may just be doing fine but sometimes i bet you would like to see a few windows software running on your mac. and to rap this up i fully agree with chis and i wish you good luck with windows.

DJ124

lol is this windows thing april fools or are you really switching?

Nice joke chris happy april fools day :)

yeah righ! 4-1-2008 Pirillo goes BACK to windows! Can you say “happy april Fools Day!!!!”

nice joke. happy april fools day chris :)

i guess that a good decision if none of his soft ware works i lixe windiws my self but i really want to try a mac

I Hope This Is An April Fools Joke, Especially When I Saw On your Live Page…”Chris Is Giving Away A Mac Pro Tonight!”

Scared Me…Mac Os X ftw!

i personally had the same problem as you were none of my software was computable with mac osx so i just had to go back to windows for all the stuff that i needed

wow i knew it would happen eventually i did the same thing i bought a macbook and in about 2months i got rid of it and bought a gateway laptop.changing from windows to mac is hard especially all of the software differences and thats why i cant really switch.

This is very interesting. I didn’t know that the mac had some issues with other programs.

Um, that’s why I use TWO computers…Mac and PC…or haven’t you considered that option? :-)

april fools

i think chris is write mac has some great features but in the long run its still not compatible with all the other great sowftware

Hey chris i dont know if u switching to back to windows is a good thing or not i mean i have a mac book air with os 10 and a pc with vista there both good but i see youre piont that u need curtan software for curtan uses. but im glad i kind of like windows better

ohh yeah.. this reminds me of the time when wanted to play an Xbox game on my PlayStation.. but it didn’t work.. so I ditched that console.. and went back to using my old Sega Mega Drive :-)

april fools much?

I feel your pain, but that doesn’t stop me from using Linux. Sometimes you cannot find a replacement for what you need (such as games you spent good money on). If you couldn’t find a replacement for even Notepad and MS Paint, that’s either pretty pathetic or you just weren’t looking.

You should have some sort of basic text editor on OS X (vim, emacs, etc.) and some sort of digital art editing software, such as The GIMP, which is far superior to MS Paint and is continuing to give Photoshop a run for the money.

Chris why are you going to move from a wonderful machine like the Mac Pro and move back over to XP? Sure Apple is not perfect and nither is Pc. Why don’t you just use boot camp and run the sofeware on the mac Pro? Anyway I just think that you should give the mac pro anouther chance!!!!!

Love your show David

No!!!!!!! Come Back To Mac!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please I don’t want you to turn a spread sheet type guy please come back to mac!!!!!!!!

Hi Chris,

You shocked me today when you started listing out all this PC software as “not compatible” with OSX. What made you think your software would work with your MAC? Why not run windows using VM or Parallels on your mac for the PC software that you can’t live without? You cannot possibly tell me with a straight face that you ever thought your PC software would work out of the box with OSX?

I have always had a lot of respect for you Chris… today I am very disappointed. Your decision seems very sudden… almost emotional. You have always seemed non biased and level headed.. what happened today? I am not bashing MS here since my home office has a MS PC’s and a MS server… along with 3 MACS. Each has their goods and bads. Will the real Chris Pirillo please come back?

Did I fall for an April Fool’s Joke???

so if i win this mac it is free that it cool i allways wanted a mac so this will be so cool if I win I am so happy that chris is doing this

i dont think i could ever leave windows i bought a mac long ago thinking i do kool stuff but could never really leave windows i donno its just something with windows that keeps people probly cuz of its age and so on ect… i had macs in school but they locked them down so it wasnt much fun so this mean your given away your mac pro

You’re leaving Mac because of Notepad! Nice April fools!

welcome back to total web insecurity and corporate domination of your coffee maker

happy april fools :)

Yeah, I have a Windows and Keeping it one, No longer thinking of getting a mac, to spendy and i need wireless but we dont have wireless for macs… So yeah anyways macs arent compatible with alot of the software i use so yeah… I’m staying windows. cheaper and more compatible…

i think depending on what you realy use it i have both xp and a mac book pro and i have no problme but it just depends on the user

Hey! I thought the Mac was going to be your big breakthrough purchase to change your life forever! That’s what happened to me with the Wii, but I have too much school work to play now that I’m back at college.
No worries Chris, you can never give up trying new things! you ROCK!

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Uh… April Fools? Or is this real?
I don’t see any pigs in the sky, hmm…

I’m in a similar situation as you are Chris, I’ve become too reliable as a gamer in using Windows OS’. But this almost doesn’t sound like you. I guess it’s because you’re in XP and not Vista, which you used to bash when it first came out (I’ve seen the YT video).

Wow Chris. The last few months has been really confusing related to operating systems. No company has really come out with the perfect operating system yet. I hope that will come within the next couple of years as i am really wanting something special, that exeeds my expectations.

Going back to Xp Really surprised me. This is because Xp is so old. You would expect the newer Operating systems to be great. Look what happens! The one from 4 years ago is better. What is up with that

Hey man, I guess your april fools jokes where pretty good. Man I almost screamed when you said you where quiting streaming…

Yah know, Chris? you really scared me. I was going to take my old PC and throw it out the window in in protest and post a youtube video about it. I was going to microwave a copy of vista and actually sacrifice my microwave by blowing it up to prove a point.

that is all,

determined1

LOL. Too good.

I totally a agree with you (if your serious about it).
Mac OS just isn’t devolved enough to be used for the average user.
Since is mainly used for work, expensive, and nothing is really compatible with it is just not really worth the buy. I had a serious thought and switching and I watch your video and everything just clicked and I think im going to stay with XP until they get there story straighten out!

-Alec

Yeah man, I know what you mean. I find it really hard without Clock for Window….I just like being told the time without some ’slick’ OS X animation trying to wow me. And the worse thing is…every time I press shift, it does the animation in slow motion! Give me grey boxes any day…Windows XP in classic mode is what I need.

Is this an April Fools joke? I don’t follow your site, so I wouldn’t know if you’re kidding or not.

You do realize that you need the OS X versions of programs for them to work, don’t you? Different operating systems, different versions, ya know.
Sound blaster: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7737/sound-blaster-driver
TaxCut is also OS X compatible; buy the os x version or download it from some pirate website.
Some games you can’t live without? Whatever.

And you do realize that instead of using Notepad there are things like TextEdit? Instead of Paint (why on earth do you use Paint?) you can get Inkscape.

Yup, OS X is totally unusable…

i really wished your april fools joke was real.. :(

for some reason I can’t get my mac keybaord or isight camera to work on XP. hello!!! PC for PC hardware, MAC for MAC hardware . I hope this april fools joke goes over..

oops, You had me there for a second.
Good one …ha ha ha.
Only a fool would switch back to
windows from mac.
Don’t trick me like that again.
Wdog

Don’t forget Minesweeper.

Hilarious :)

Who can live without Tomb Raider anyways?

Yikes! Not very impressed with the reasons you laid out for switching back to XP, but it sounds like you’ll be a lot happier sticking with one OS.

For example, citing notepad as not being available in OSX was kind of silly as Mac OS X comes with TextEdit, almost exactly like notepad except that it has more features (being able to open and save more formats than textedit). Mac OS X also had PDF support, editing, and noting native in Preview, unlike XP.

I agree with you that the hardware drivers and incompatibility of windows games can be a pain, but you did buy those to run in XP, so why not just run XP in Bootcamp? Bootcamp is not virtualized, its running XP native.

When you’re not playing games, you could have run Mac OS X natively and had XP running in VMWare or Parallels from your Bootcamp parition. You’d be surprised how XP is so much faster in a virtualized environment than native.

I’m a big fan of Microsoft products and have been for years, but this is one of the least informed decisions I’ve seen you make. It makes me wonder if you were just frustrated with some incompatibilities and did not give yourself enough time with Mac and/or if you have some sort of a business deal with Microsoft now. Either way, I’m glad you are happier with your decision, but it’s not a decision I’d advise other readers to make.

Seriously? I’m not to sure now because of your “April-Fools Joke” lol… Look on the bright side folks, at least he isn’t on vista like me =[

He is right about mac compatibility with mainstream programs. I love the mac platform and I use it everyday, and granted, it is not for everyone. I use os x for a lot of graphic designing and I have found os x to fit me best. Now Chris on the other hand, needs to have a system that has that microsoft compatibility. For the most part of the new millennium we have used primarily windows, while Apple was slowly recovering from their near death in the 90’s. And even though it has been almost a decade, they still are trying to gain their lost market status; they still are recovering from the years of barely no software development.

Hey Chris, I know there’s a lot of software that doesn’t work with MAC OS X, but can’t you run Windows virtually on a Mac?

hey chris i can see y u swith to xp a mac there is many bug and to spy ware and stuff that can not do with xp what u can do with your mac i wish i could switch to a mac but money hard to get. u can get more thing done in a mac then in xp i can see y
i use xp and linux on my computer
bye chris
from
Greg (g_Dog1985)

i mis up up top
i thought u go to xp to mac sorry about that

I always thought the software such as parallels desktop for Mac will let you run Windows software on the Mac. Is there any limitation of using parallels when running windows software? That is one of the question I would like to know since I was thinking about switching to the Mac.

hmmm something smelling fishy… April 1st anyone?

This must be an April Fools joke. You know that software written for one operating system will not run on another operating system.
It is not the operating system that is at fault it is the company who wrote the software for only one operating system that is at fault. You know that you can use your Apple to run both operating systems and therefor use all your old programs written for windows XP.

If it wasn’t April Fools Day, I might be impressed.

Not falling for that on the first day of April, Chris!

lab coats behind the counter at pharmacies do. And if you believe, I’ve got a copy of Duke Nukem Forever to sell you. Here are a few examples of this year’s hoaxes that bored me: Sun, after open-sourcing Java and Solaris, want the code back.Chris Pirillo plans dumps Mac OS X in favour of Windows XPConsumerist becomes the Conglomerist and posts a lot of things that are the antithesis of what the site stands for More of Google’s usual April Fool’s fake products and product features xkcd turns from a Web comic about stick figures pondering

Chris:

I am glad you are back on Windows. Perhaps it is selfish, but I have enjoyed your stuff for a long time and was not that pleased by your change to OS 10. I am in no position to change from Windows. I am locked in due to the cost of any change at all. I have eight PCs running XP– all use the same network and everybody is working on stuff that must be addressed in the same way from all work stations. Also, I still use some very old programs which work fine and I don’t want to go to the trouble of learning how to use the newer stuff.

Meanwhile back at XP, lets discuss how to make it more reliable, more stable and more powerful.

Not to mention Vista ….. ????

Thanks

Komo

Chris,
I am still a big fan. However, I am convinced you are a flake.
First you rant about Vista and switch back to XP. Next you dump Microsoft and swear by the Mac. Now you’re dumping Mac and going back to XP. Lastly, you have quit live streaming, and are going to stop You Tube videos. I give up on you.
The final blow to your audience is let all of us know you are truly “henpecked”.

Nice April Fool’s joke! Keep the reviews coming, Chris!

Hi Chris.

If this is not a April Fools prank… let me just say that the list of software that you gave out as the reason why you were switching back to windows is the most stupid reason that i have ever heard in my life!!

Happy April Fools day.

Best regards from Portugal,
João

Dear Chris

Wow, I’m surprise that you suddenly switch back to Windows. But I understand why.

The majority of the World uses Windows and they all develop software for Windows instead of Mac.

Now, when I thought about following your steps and get a Mac, I feel kinda silly as most of my programs only run on Windows, I will NOT get Mac software unless it’s necessary.

Are you now running Windows on your Mac Pro?

Thanks
Shinn

Two out of five, Chris…not bad!

He’s not really leaving, the stream is up right now.

The options in the OS lottery are few: try another OS, try virtualizing one OS within another, try upgrading your hardware, try upgrading your software, try tweaking until you go nuts, try not having a computer at all, but finally discover that no option works and revert to your old OS with a shudder of revulsion. I’ve done all these things, but still the whole time I have kept Vista as the default boot-up partition on my computer, I think basically because Windows is what I’m used to, because I like the way Vista operates (when it operates), and because former versions of Windows tend to be — well, so former. Microsoft has had well over a year to straighten Vista out, but nothing has been straightened out — there still isn’t a single window that can remember its settings for more than an hour, the file manager still regularly displays my ordinary data files as music files, and Service Pack 1 loaded into my machine and simply disappeared — I can find no apparent effect from having installed it. Even with a dual processor and 4 GB of fast memory, Vista is as slow as an elderly hippopotamus, lumbering along and often just refusing to answer my clicking and key-tapping while it furiously overheats the CPU and thrashes the hard drive into a coma. What the heck is it doing? Does Microsoft even know? Now I have gone to liquid cooling and the CPU stays cool and lovely (but with plastic hoses full of green liquid hanging out of the case and just waiting for their chance to rupture). Soon I will upgrade to a quad processor, but I don’t actually think it will go any faster. Vista defies every attempt to fix it, unfortunately, and so I have given up worrying about it. I just run the programs I need to run, always just getting by and coping with the myriads of glitches, but it’s like living in a house that has big holes in the floor — you must remember where the holes are and not fall into any of them.

I am in complete support of your decision. Just the other day I fired up iMovie 08 to make a video but was dissapointed with the featureset compared to Windows Movie Maker. It’s so hard to use, too! Adobe CS3 runs a helluva lot smoother on my windows machine as well. And I’m totally convinced that there is no other browser that crashes as much as Safari.

If I may: I love you Microsoft. If not for your uncomparable innovation then for your support of good-quality software (Vista & IE7) and intelligible ease of use.

;)

I don’t know what to believe anymore. Chris, if this is true, don’t post it on April 1.

Well, I have watched this blog and the various video segments for a while now and never commented, I converted to MAC over the Xmas break, I am an IT professional and work in a totally windows environment. MS has some of the best server software out there and the server apps just rock. But I have to say, Vista blew it away for me when it comes to desktops. I think every techhead knows that vista is almost ME but a later version of it. So for me an iMac and Macbook rule my life and I have to say its sweet no problems, if I want to run dedicated Windows software I just boot into virtualisation (VMFusion) and away I go, no problem at all.

So I guess this statement is either a hoax (April Fool) or is the rant of some poor misguided techhead (sorry Chris).

Mac for me is the way forward, until Vista gets junked!

:)

It’s a certainly very good morning. I get two days off in a row this week, today and tomorrow. And the other thing, blissful feeling is … Chris switched back to Windows XP from OS X. I seldom write the comments for the blogs but when I saw Chris’ latest post this morning, (no words for my jumpy feeling from bottom of my heart). As I read the post of Chris’ choosing OS X, I really wanna say something to Chris but I do believe that he’d better know what he’s doing. In my point of view, OS X is running on quite exceptional engine and interface although on the other hand OS X is not suitable for geeky Chris. (Let me drop my lines here ’cause I’m running out of food for this week and frying some cheap chicken legs (99 cents per pound!) right now). Anyway, Chris … I only have a countable knowledge in Web 2.0 realm but I do know one thing that only the Windows XP (not yet Windows Vista) can work for YOU. Have a good day. (I’m gonna watch your podcast video again … it’s the third time for today :) :) :) …)

ha ha april fool joke done badly.

i can see both sides of switching back to windows i would love a mac for the reliabiltly but im a pc gamer and i cant find any of my game which would work on mac OSX 10

YEA! Welcome back to Windows XP! Woot! Woot! Woot! Sorry but my autocad programs, 3d rendering programs, CAD peripherals and gaming programs work so much better in Windows XP, versus parallels, boot-camp, and virtual machines. Of course I run many of them through a iram drive, a 10k hard drive, and an smooth running over-clocked cpu.

Read between the lines and you will find that Chris is only going back because he misses his Lara Croft Tomb Raider game…

Chris,

How ironic. Yesterday, after one year of testing, tweaking, poking, and researching… I moved the Windows XP machine off my corporate desk and permanently placed my MAC in its’ place. I’ve come to the realization, after 25 years, that I am done with Microsoft and particularly Windows OS. While I still support those products for the company I work for, I will do so using a MAC.

These reasons you gave for going backwards, are lame. TaxCut, a MAC version will run on OSX. Notepad and paint replacement programs are abundant. Sound drivers??? What are you trying to run OSX on??? Something you’ve built in your garage?

My vote clearly is to stay with Apple, and OSX. My your journey backwards, Chris, serve you well.

So how many April Fools jokes is that? Three?

Not quite beating Slashdot’s record last year, but certainly equalling Google. Well done.

I just switched to OS X and it’s brilliant, but I still had to use windows. So what I did was, I keep my Mac Mini in my room, and a windows computer aside, so run the apps.
But, why don’t you just run VMWare? I do. (and they sponsor you)
Run the apps in unity mode, then boom! You use windows apps in Mac OS X.

AND

CHRIS: why don’t you tell everyone that the whole stream/youtube stop was a April fools joke!!!!!!!!!!!! People are taking it to seriously!!!!!
(or was that true?)

Nice try. The first poster got it. April fools! Besides, he knows that most stuff will work with boot camp anyway, at the very worst.

I didn’t seriously think you needed Paint.