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If you want to start that competition, ok. It’s not nearly the same. For one, the Mac will actually turn off when you want to turn it off. System updates are fa
by jiofih 5y ago
If you want to start that competition, ok. It’s not nearly the same. For one, the Mac will actually turn off when you want to turn it off. System updates are far in between and usually just work. On windows you get driver updates every week (which still don’t automatically install for the most part), and you might have audio / graphics issues start popping up out of the blue. Or your favorite software stops working. Or it just refuses to wake up from sleep. Or one of the 17 things running in the tray (the mouse driver maybe, or fan manager, or the manufacturers “optimization” software) starts eating your CPU. Your fans start going wild every 30 seconds for no particular reason. The start menu stops responding. Some app locks the whole system up and you can’t even open the task manager because it steals focus. One day your audio volume is off and you can’t figure out why. Windows decides that the default output is something else and ignores your attempts at reverting that. Your mouse locks up randomly. The Windows key decides it doesn’t work anymore. Alt-tab stops working. Everything slows down to a crawl one day while watching YouTube, and again you can’t open the task manager…
The solution (if there is one) usually involves a fair bit of googling, uninstalling/reinstalling/updating things, maybe messing with the registry or settings.
You may think I’m exaggerating, but this is actually the list of issues I’ve had myself in a span of two years. I use the PC for browsing and gaming, nothing else. It has been very frustrating, and I’ve been working with computers for 20 years. I used to think Linux was a pain but am rethinking that.
Flash has been deprecated on the Mac for ages, and Adobe stopped supporting it completely last year.