If you’re a fan of technology, you’re probably familiar with the technology holy war. Or, depending on the specifics, you might be familiar with the term “Software Holy war” or “hardware Holy war”.
Technology holy wars occur when people who favor one type of software/hardware/platform attempt to derail competing technologies. “Fan Boys” who engage in these holy wars will typically stoop to amazing levels arguing about which technology is faster, more stable, easier to use, so on and so forth.
Some holy wars you might be familiar with:
- PC (Windows) vs Mac
- Firefox vs Internet Explorer vs Opera vs Newcomer Chrome
- Dell vs Home Built
- ASP vs PHP
- Linux vs everything
Through years of experience in the computing world, I’ve finally come to an amazing conclusion:
Every job has it’s right tool.
Despite what fanboys of one technology or another will tell you, some people simply work better in one environment over another. Sometimes the simplicity of one tool outweights it’s performance capabilities, or vice-versa. There is no magic, universal tool that can always accomplish anything better than anything else.
Maybe it’s just wisdom (or insanity) with age, but I’ve just come to realize that people fighting technology holy wars are either wasting valuable time, or aren’t as technically proficient as they claim to be.
P.S.
Firefox and Apple suck.
there goes the holy wars still
blood and …
You have some good points, on the flip side though my personal preference has leaned more towards Chrome for the very reasons you listed. The simplicity, cleanliness and lack of settings has made Chrome the best browser for me.
To each his own ah?
Aside from the PS, the post is a useful observation. The question is what the niche strengths and weaknesses are for each technology.
Mac and Firefox definitely have their strengths. From limited experience, Mac OSX is more stable than Vista, and certainly a LOT of the "creative" industry uses Macs heavilly. If you are working with them, Just using Mac may well save enough interaction overhead to justify the high cost of Mac hardware.
IE may have strengths over Firefox, but as far as customizing settings convenience, especially related to maintaining privacy, Firefox has worked out much better for me.