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Microsoft is ruining Windows. It just keeps getting worse. Whether it be their insistence on AI and cloud garbage, or just a general sense of incompetence, I can’t help but feel like the operating system has seen better days.

Normally I wouldn’t care too much, big tech ruins another thing, whatever.

But the problem is Microsoft has such a dominant market share that you can’t really escape them.

I guess unless you use a Mac or something I don’t know.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I guess unless you use a Mac or something I don’t know.

    Yea … you can just use a Mac.

    I switched … back in 2006 after being fed up with MS BS. Haven’t looked back. Since then I’ve had 2 laptops. That’s it.

    The current one is getting old now, sadly, but part of the trick with Apple is timing your purchases for when they kinda nail the product in the particular design cycle. Don’t buy when they do something new for the first time, aim for near the end of a design cycle generally. And don’t get base specs, add RAM and disk space (perhaps through extended 3rd party devices). And their machines can be very useful for quite a while.

    Of course there’s Linux, but you’ll know if you’re ready for that.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      But you only have two kidneys, how will you buy a third Mac?

      Macs are outrageously priced for the hardware you get.

      Non-Apple laptops can be just as reliable and last just as long nowadays, and you get to upgrade them at a fraction of the cost. Actually I should say you get to upgrade them, period.

      • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Macs are outrageously priced for the hardware you get.

        Yea sure, we all know this. But we’re talking about software here. Not to be too snarky, but the part you actually use. The differences might not be worth it to you, or maybe you need a gaming PC, but for some, it’s just fine.