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I don't think so. Strangely, to me it seems like Windows is both the closest to the best and also the furthest from, due to the fact that many of the issues wit
by bodge5000 4y ago
I don't think so. Strangely, to me it seems like Windows is both the closest to the best and also the furthest from, due to the fact that many of the issues with MacOS and Linux are kind of by design (first that comes to mind is fragmentation on linux, and the walled garden of MacOS). Many of the issues with Windows are indeed intentional, like the fact it forces updates on you, but they're not core to what Windows is.
- pivo 4y agoI've only used macOS and Linux so I don't really understand your statement that "forced updates are not core to what Windows is." If it's mandated, how are forced updates not core to Windows and how is that different to the walled garden of macOS? What even is the walled garden of macOS? Is it just that you need a developer account for Xcode? Is it the macOS App Store? Neither of those seem core to macOS. I grant you that there's a walled garden in iOS, but that's different. I've never had an issue running anything I wished to run on macOS.
- bodge5000 4y agoWhat I mean is that if you make linux into something that centrally controlled, it becomes unrecognisable from the linux we know. If you remove the walled garden from macos, it becomes unrecognisable from the macos we know. If you remove forced updates from windows, fundamentally its still the same thing. As for what the walled garden is, its quite hard to explain. I'm not saying its a wholly bad thing either, I use a mac as my main person computer at the moment. But it certainly does feel like if you don't use your mac the way apple intends you to you'll have a significantly worse time compared to another OS. Opinionated software I guess would be the word, which like I say is a double edged sword.