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Not fully responsive, but I would just buy a nice Windows 10 computer. Surface, Dell XPS, Thinkpad X1, plus numerous others from various manufacturers, are avai

Not fully responsive, but I would just buy a nice Windows 10 computer. Surface, Dell XPS, Thinkpad X1, plus numerous others from various manufacturers, are available. They can run WSL, Docker, various hypervisors and VM tools, and still be fully AMD/Intel compatible for deployment. Furthermore I doubt they will become as closed as macOS is becoming, and Windows will run on them for years and years to come. I am not looking back. Touchbar, crappy keyboards, regressive and user hostile macOS, and now custom CPUs? The walled garden has become a hellish prison and I am out. I wont miss Aperture, Logic and Final Cut that much. Everything else I use is ... Imagine this ... Fully cross platform! Adobe, Ableton, Native Instruments, JetBrains, etc. Anything I cannot do easily in Windows I have WSL or Cygwin. Thanks for 12 great years and 4 increasingly miserable years, Apple. I'm out, and once my current hardware dies it won't be replaced. I like my OnePlus phone and Surface Book and Go.

sneak 6y ago
Windows comes with a great deal more embedded spyware and adware than macOS, and has a lot more malware targeted at it in the wild. I think the security situation is far better on macOS.
- tootie 6y ago
  Windows really doesn't, it's the OEMs. It's a pain, but I usually spend like 30 minutes cleaning up a new laptop and it never bothers me again. My last few machines have been Acers and they were pretty clean.
  - sneak 6y ago
    This is not an accurate statement. Windows 10 includes a huge amount of spyware out of the box direct from Microsoft.
    - spronkey 6y ago
      Have you looked at the network traffic coming out of macOS lately?
      - sneak 6y ago
        Yes, I run Little Snitch with the Apple whitelists disabled. https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/hacks/src/branch/master/fixcatalina/fixcatalina.sh https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/hacks/src/branch/master/fixcatalin... The above script helps a little bit.
    - dehrmann 6y ago
      "Spyware" is a bit of an exaggeration. Pretty much all the things it does are also done on Android phones, and it asks you on setup if you'd like to disable any. Now, MS isn't an ad company like Google, and enabling data collection by default is the wrong approach for users. It feels like it was build with features (that you probably don't care about--Hey Cortana) in mind before privacy.
lolsal 6y ago
I find perspectives like yours interesting because I have the opposite experience - I use almost exclusively Apple applications and I love their hardware (now that new MBPs have Esc keys again...). From my perspective I find Windows UX hellish and non-Mac hardware extremely cumbersome and unreliable. This is all subjective of course.

sneak 6y ago

Windows comes with a great deal more embedded spyware and adware than macOS, and has a lot more malware targeted at it in the wild. I think the security situation is far better on macOS.

tootie 6y ago
Windows really doesn't, it's the OEMs. It's a pain, but I usually spend like 30 minutes cleaning up a new laptop and it never bothers me again. My last few machines have been Acers and they were pretty clean.
- sneak 6y ago
  This is not an accurate statement. Windows 10 includes a huge amount of spyware out of the box direct from Microsoft.
  - spronkey 6y ago
    Have you looked at the network traffic coming out of macOS lately?
    - sneak 6y ago
      Yes, I run Little Snitch with the Apple whitelists disabled. https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/hacks/src/branch/master/fixcatalina/fixcatalina.sh https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/hacks/src/branch/master/fixcatalin... The above script helps a little bit.
  - dehrmann 6y ago
    "Spyware" is a bit of an exaggeration. Pretty much all the things it does are also done on Android phones, and it asks you on setup if you'd like to disable any. Now, MS isn't an ad company like Google, and enabling data collection by default is the wrong approach for users. It feels like it was build with features (that you probably don't care about--Hey Cortana) in mind before privacy.

lolsal 6y ago

I find perspectives like yours interesting because I have the opposite experience - I use almost exclusively Apple applications and I love their hardware (now that new MBPs have Esc keys again...). From my perspective I find Windows UX hellish and non-Mac hardware extremely cumbersome and unreliable. This is all subjective of course.