Oh come on. This is what you said:
'Let the guy buy what he wants and needs rather than urging him to buy into an overzealous computer subculture."
Yeah, you did say, “Let him buy what he wants and needs”, followed by a snide mention of an “overzealous computer subculture” (i.e., the Mac). No conceding that maybe a Mac could be considered as a viable alternative if variety was the goal (something which you doubted—basically, you thought the OP was being dishonest). But, just in case the OP isn’t lying (in your opinion) about the variety thing, you suggest, " If it was about variety why not suggest that the guy get a computer from Sun or installing a non-Microsoft OS on a PC."
Gotta be a PC-based computer, eh? Because if the roomie got a Mac (running OS X and Linux on a partitioned drive) that just wouldn’t do. Because it’d be part of an “overzealous computer subculture”. And this from, “raisinbread, a PC user.” Oh no, you’re completely open-minded there.
:rolleyes:
Oh, sure—let 'em choose. As long as he doesn’t consider one of those machines from the “overzealous computer subculture”!