My 3 kids each have a PC, each just a couple of years old running fully patched and updated XP. Anti-virus is updated, malware blockers in place. IE is hidden out of site and all they know and see is the latest release of Firefox. Nat’d firewall and OpenDNS. For the most part, everything runs pretty smoothly. Yeah, I know the machines should be running Ubuntu or be replaced with Macs. Stay with me on this.

Last week, my daughter pulls me aside to show me a popup that won’t go away. Some malware installed itself that wants a credit card to fix the ‘virus’ it detected. Long and short of it, I went through the whole rigamarole of booting into  safe mode and doing all the registry fixes, running the HijackThis/Spybot combo, and all the housekeeping to get rid of the malware. Yeah, it’s a hassle that sucks up hours of my life I’m never getting back. She’s good to go with a lesson in what to click and what not to click. No harm, no foul.

The other machines in the house pretty much run OSX or Linux and these issues never come up. No surprise.

So, what does this have to do with chicken nuggets? Windows reminds me of McDonald’s chicken nuggets and OSX reminds me of Chick-fil-a chicken nuggets. With the sauce covering either, they both taste pretty good. The difference is that without the sauce, the McD’s nuggets taste like wet cardboard, while the Chick-fil-a nuggets still taste really good. There’s a fundamental difference in the foundation of both nuggets, much like the difference in foundation between Windows and OSX/Linux.

If you’ve never been to Chick-fil-a, it should be on your ‘Bucket List.’ If you don’t live near a Chick-fil-a, move near one. You’ll thank me some day.