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It's aggressively anti-poweruser and will reset your settings and even delete your programs. It has many baby's first computer safety features that are difficul

It's aggressively anti-poweruser and will reset your settings and even delete your programs. It has many baby's first computer safety features that are difficult or not intended to be turned off. For example the new Windows Defender equivalent now runs in the background and uses up disk and CPU (which can easily be near 100% on older HDDs or weaker hardware), even if you switch it off. When I lost my technician job a few years ago, I took up a repair shop job to make ends meet. Basic Windows features (starting with 8 and going up to 10, can't speak for 11) were just completely broken on a lot of budget hardware. A little over a quarter of the non-hardware problems I fixed were SysMain and Defender deciding they deserve all system resources. If you have hardware it 'likes', and you don't need to edit settings other than what they provide to you, you'll be fine with your use case. A ThinkPad probably would not have the issues I saw.

ipaddr 4y ago
"aggressively anti-poweruser", you are talking to a mac user.
- im_jerry87 4y ago
  so, if you are running macOS, you can't be a power user? Is that what you are implying here? If so, you can't be more wrong. Just try disabling auto updates of an application like Spotify or Chrome on both Windows and macOS w/o relying on a thrid party tool and let me know how this seemingly simple task that a so called "power user" might need went for you on Windows compared to macOS.
- freetonik 4y ago
  While I can understand where you're coming from, I don't think the implication is fair. Even today, after many years of degradation of UX, macOS remains very customizable. This is not something I'm interested at the moment, but with apps like Karabiner Elements, Alfred, Keyboard Maestro, Apple's native Shortcuts, and the underlying *nix, I wouldn't define macOS as not suitable for power users.
satiric 4y ago
How did your programs get deleted? I've never seen anything like that before, and I've been using Windows all my life.

ipaddr 4y ago

"aggressively anti-poweruser", you are talking to a mac user.

im_jerry87 4y ago
so, if you are running macOS, you can't be a power user? Is that what you are implying here? If so, you can't be more wrong. Just try disabling auto updates of an application like Spotify or Chrome on both Windows and macOS w/o relying on a thrid party tool and let me know how this seemingly simple task that a so called "power user" might need went for you on Windows compared to macOS.
freetonik 4y ago
While I can understand where you're coming from, I don't think the implication is fair. Even today, after many years of degradation of UX, macOS remains very customizable. This is not something I'm interested at the moment, but with apps like Karabiner Elements, Alfred, Keyboard Maestro, Apple's native Shortcuts, and the underlying *nix, I wouldn't define macOS as not suitable for power users.

satiric 4y ago

How did your programs get deleted? I've never seen anything like that before, and I've been using Windows all my life.