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> That macs are more stable in day-to-day operation is not really a bold claim though. It absolutely is. Do you have any data to back up the claim? Anecdotally
by kllrnohj 6y ago
> That macs are more stable in day-to-day operation is not really a bold claim though.
It absolutely is. Do you have any data to back up the claim? Anecdotally windows 10's stability seems vastly superior, especially with every release of MacOS seemingly regressing further and further.
- theshrike79 6y agoI got the idea that "stability" here doesn't refer to crashing, but more about the fact that the computer behaves in a consistent manner. You won't get a sudden I/O or CPU load during important operations for example.
- ungamedplayer 6y agoThats also untrue of osx, spotlight indexing, cron jobs, etc.
- jb1991 6y agoI just ran ‘uptime’ on my Mac terminal. 194 days. I pretty much never reboot the thing. It’s just always stable, despite hundreds, maybe thousands, of sleep-wake cycles, usually a dozen apps open at one time, the thing is as stable now as it was when I rebooted it some six months ago. I used to use windows, for a decade, and certainly never had any experience like that.
- kllrnohj 6y agoThe only time I ever reboot Windows 10 is to apply updates, which mac os also forces you to do. Windows doesn't even go down if a driver crashes anymore. Updates alone put my old macbook pro at lower availability than any of my windows or Linux systems since MacOS manages to have a uniquely slow update system. I don't get how major MacOS updates manages to be several times slower than fresh installs of Windows or Linux.