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> Microsoft has lost whatever initial magic helped them make a good OS, it's all corporatism now. I never heard anyone that described Windows as a good OS. It

> Microsoft has lost whatever initial magic helped them make a good OS, it's all corporatism now. I never heard anyone that described Windows as a good OS. It was always a Platform for Microsoft Office or Games. MacOS was always the good OS.

kibibu 3y ago
Not true, all the mac operating systems before OSX were flaming bags of dog shit. Win 2000 was significantly better than any of them
- diffeomorphism 3y ago
  > Not true 20 years ago. Okay, but not really relevant? I know quite a few people that genuinely like MacOS or desktop linux. Yet, for Windows 11 at best I hear "it runs my software and is mostly okay (except for the ads, shitty updates,..)" or "I don't like macs".
  - kibibu 3y ago
    I suggest you read the comment I was replying to
- pohuing 3y ago
  Still are. I can't believe how everyone complains about MS's setup flow but gives apple an easy ok to their iCloud nagging for which you need to edit globalPreferences to disable it. Or the messed up mouse acceleration, or scroll wheel acceleration, or the forced impossible to disable animations, or the terrible handling of full screen applications in combination with three screens(though ig this isn't an issue for modern Mac users, you can't even have three screens anymore). Windows in turn has superior tiling, you can disable animations and you can disable OneDrive very easily. Borderless full-screen applications let you drag others across them and there's a lot more you can customize
  - kibibu 3y ago
    You're absolutely correct. Apple pushes AppleID much harder than MS pushes accounts.
ThePowerOfFuet 3y ago
> MacOS was always the good OS. Emphasis, unfortunately, on _was_. From 2019 (and I have seen no improvement since, au contraire): https://tidbits.com/2019/10/21/six-reasons-why-ios-13-and-catalina-are-so-buggy/ https://tidbits.com/2019/10/21/six-reasons-why-ios-13-and-ca...
BSDobelix 3y ago
>MacOS was always the good OS. Classic MacOS was terrible, no protected memory no access controls and no virtual memory until 7. Windows NT already had that. A good "personal" system at that time was NeXTSTEP. And for workstation let's not forget OpenVMS and all the other Unix's like Irix, Solaris etc.
LightHugger 3y ago
MacOS has never even been decent in my viewing and everyone i know. It's not even in the running, as if only linux and windows even exist. I understand you might have a different view if you are embedded in the apple ecosystem

kibibu 3y ago

Not true, all the mac operating systems before OSX were flaming bags of dog shit. Win 2000 was significantly better than any of them

diffeomorphism 3y ago
> Not true 20 years ago. Okay, but not really relevant? I know quite a few people that genuinely like MacOS or desktop linux. Yet, for Windows 11 at best I hear "it runs my software and is mostly okay (except for the ads, shitty updates,..)" or "I don't like macs".
- kibibu 3y ago
  I suggest you read the comment I was replying to
pohuing 3y ago
Still are. I can't believe how everyone complains about MS's setup flow but gives apple an easy ok to their iCloud nagging for which you need to edit globalPreferences to disable it. Or the messed up mouse acceleration, or scroll wheel acceleration, or the forced impossible to disable animations, or the terrible handling of full screen applications in combination with three screens(though ig this isn't an issue for modern Mac users, you can't even have three screens anymore). Windows in turn has superior tiling, you can disable animations and you can disable OneDrive very easily. Borderless full-screen applications let you drag others across them and there's a lot more you can customize
- kibibu 3y ago
  You're absolutely correct. Apple pushes AppleID much harder than MS pushes accounts.

ThePowerOfFuet 3y ago

> MacOS was always the good OS. Emphasis, unfortunately, on _was_. From 2019 (and I have seen no improvement since, au contraire): https://tidbits.com/2019/10/21/six-reasons-why-ios-13-and-catalina-are-so-buggy/ https://tidbits.com/2019/10/21/six-reasons-why-ios-13-and-ca...

BSDobelix 3y ago

>MacOS was always the good OS. Classic MacOS was terrible, no protected memory no access controls and no virtual memory until 7. Windows NT already had that. A good "personal" system at that time was NeXTSTEP. And for workstation let's not forget OpenVMS and all the other Unix's like Irix, Solaris etc.

LightHugger 3y ago

MacOS has never even been decent in my viewing and everyone i know. It's not even in the running, as if only linux and windows even exist. I understand you might have a different view if you are embedded in the apple ecosystem