Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by ntsplnkv3 on Sunday March 05, 2017 @05:06PM (#13799057)

Windows 8 was worse than Windows 10 which is worse than 7. I should have specified-to me Windows 8 and 10 are both poor, both much worse than 7. To be honest, I had an EASIER time with Windows 8 (company provided laptop) than Windows 10.

Windows 7 was the pinnacle windows experience for me and it has gotten worse ever since.

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by phaed on Sunday March 05, 2017 @10:28PM (#13800472)

What about windows 7 was so great? The start menu? Windows 10 has a 5 second boot up time, most all annoyances anyone has online can be configured away, and it is insanely stable (haven't had it once crash on me yet).

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by ntsplnkv3 on Thursday March 09, 2017 @10:18PM (#13836056)

It took a familiar UI and improved it. It added features in an intuitive way. And many of the features of windows 10 could've easily been added to 7.

> Windows 10 has a 5 second boot up time

Man, I wish. My 10 system never boots up that fast. Meanwhile my Windows 7 desktop takes 15 seconds to boot up on SSD. Those 10 seconds just aren't that much of a feature for me-especially since my laptop/desktop are typically in sleep mode anyway.

> most all annoyances anyone has online can be configured away,

Yes, because we should have to do work to eliminate baked in ads and processes that share my information with who knows who.

Also, you can't even intuitively FIND settings. The Control Panel has some settings the Settings app doesn't have and vice versa. It's a mess. Why can't they all be in one place? Mac? one place.

I can't even get Windows 10 to update. Instead I have to constantly kill a rogue update process that decimates resources because I can't get a basic update to download and install properly.

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by tempodox on Monday March 06, 2017 @02:56AM (#13801329)

Well, it crashed on me. Not even a blue screen of death, just spontaneous reboot.

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by phaed on Monday March 06, 2017 @08:10AM (#13802406)

This is one of those annoyances, probably not a crash but one of those infamous 3am forced reboots while you're playing CSGO no less. This is one of those things you need to google and configure away.

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by herbst on Monday March 06, 2017 @08:08AM (#13802394)

With configured away you surely mean install third party tools full of adware until one nearly does what you want.

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by thatguy0900 on Sunday March 05, 2017 @11:19PM (#13800668)

That's quite an assumption

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by phaed on Sunday March 05, 2017 @11:39PM (#13800734)

Thanks, I'm quite good at those.

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