The past year or so, there has been a lot of talk about why mac is better than windows and vice-versa. In Chris Pirillo’s IRC channel for his live video feed, this debate seems to be a daily occurrence, and it seems to be mostly fanboy-ism (people saying X is better, or Y is the best, and not being able to offer an proof as to why). And you know what? I’m getting pretty sick of the whole debate.

Chris Pirillo recently posted 50 Reasons to Switch from Microsoft Windows to Mac OS X. Jeff from BestTechie.net countered Chris’ post with 50 Reasons to Switch From Mac to PC. When Chris first posted his list, I was going to create my own list of 50 reasons why you would want to switch from a Mac to Windows, but as I was thinking about it, I was only able to come up with one solid reason.

I may not have as many reasons as they do, but I think mine is stronger than their 50. My reason to switch from a Mac to Windows (and to switch from Windows to a Mac, oddly enough) is that it works better for you. The only reason to switch operating systems is if you’re current one cannot do something that you need to do. If there was something that I could do on Windows, then I wouldn’t be typing this on Windows Vista; I’d be typing it on a Mac

The only other thing that I will say is that I don’t buy the argument that Mac’s are safer because there aren’t any viruses for them. Sorry, but that’s just not true (1, 2, 3), and as the user base of Mac systems increases, more viruses will be created (or existing ones modified) to wreck havoc on Macs.