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The Windows UI gets worse in that gets more dumbed down and Mac like, but I find it keeps getting more stable. I switched from from Macs to Microsoft Surfaces

The Windows UI gets worse in that gets more dumbed down and Mac like, but I find it keeps getting more stable. I switched from from Macs to Microsoft Surfaces when they first came out and found them to be significantly more stable. I can't deny that new Macbooks might be the best hardware you can get, but I'm still going with a Framework running Linux for my next portable.

jwells89 3y ago
The frustrating part about Windows getting more mac-like is that the skin deep parts seem to be all that gets copied, and those are copied piecemeal instead of as cohesive wholes. If they’re gonna copy I wish it’d be things like all the little power user features that macs have had since OS X reached maturity.
pxc 3y ago
While lots of things in macOS are missing or broken, I more frequently see OS components spontaneously break down on Windows. On the Windows laptop I'm getting rid of shortly, I have to routinely kill dwm.exe because over time it comes to lag so much that it can't keep up with window movement. Colleagues report daily lockups of the start menu which further result in explorer.exe crashes when the Windows key is tapped. The last time I used macOS professionally, I also experienced what I'd consider poor stability there, so maybe I'll feel differently after more time. But so far, after several weeks, it seems obvious to me that my new work MBP is much more stable than the Windows laptop they gave me a year ago.
- themerone 3y ago
  I daily drove a high end Chromebook with Linux containers for a couple years and in a lot of ways it prevents an even better experience than windows. The stability of the base system was unbeatable. Apps running in the Linux container were more crash prone than bare metal, but that should improve over time. I successfully ran Android Studio, Visual Studio Code, and a bunch of other tools with surprising success.

jwells89 3y ago

The frustrating part about Windows getting more mac-like is that the skin deep parts seem to be all that gets copied, and those are copied piecemeal instead of as cohesive wholes. If they’re gonna copy I wish it’d be things like all the little power user features that macs have had since OS X reached maturity.

pxc 3y ago

While lots of things in macOS are missing or broken, I more frequently see OS components spontaneously break down on Windows. On the Windows laptop I'm getting rid of shortly, I have to routinely kill dwm.exe because over time it comes to lag so much that it can't keep up with window movement. Colleagues report daily lockups of the start menu which further result in explorer.exe crashes when the Windows key is tapped. The last time I used macOS professionally, I also experienced what I'd consider poor stability there, so maybe I'll feel differently after more time. But so far, after several weeks, it seems obvious to me that my new work MBP is much more stable than the Windows laptop they gave me a year ago.

themerone 3y ago
I daily drove a high end Chromebook with Linux containers for a couple years and in a lot of ways it prevents an even better experience than windows. The stability of the base system was unbeatable. Apps running in the Linux container were more crash prone than bare metal, but that should improve over time. I successfully ran Android Studio, Visual Studio Code, and a bunch of other tools with surprising success.