I’m an engineer, I know more than you

If you want to take it as that, and are unwilling to take advice from people with actual experience

I use macOS, but yes windows is more stable than desktop Linux overall

I use Linux every day but it’s not useable on the desktop and nobody who knows anything about computers thinks otherwise

Are you telling me he should be hitting on them in this situation?

People who use the word “fanboy” care way more than the other side, it’s like android saying it to Apple users

Use your trash while the rest of us enjoy a stable product

Two of my grandparents had it, I’ll probably get it if I last that long

Hope our descendants enjoy paying for life long drugs to prevent a number of diseases (fingers crossed anyway)

I have owned all my MacBooks for 5 years+, pretty sure it’s the windows users who buy new computers ever year because they buy garbage and Microsoft are encouraged to slow down computers over time

I use a 5 year old Mac mini at work and it’s faster than the thread ripper pro they originally gave me for what I do

Apple hate of this degree just smells like ignorance in this day and age

My 2020 MacBook will probably last another 10 years, at that time I will have no issue buying a new base model even if it is 3x the price

They were trying to be too general purpose but never had good enough enterprise support to make people consider moving from redhat so they tried to get profit from desktop users

Apple have only been clearly the best the last 5 years

People who understand computers use macOS exclusively

Linux is not good outside server or embedded applications

Just buy her a MacBook if you want to be a good uncle

There has been corps like dell offering Linux distros like 10-15 years ago, it just never was an attractive option compared to windows

But windows is killing itself

I think it’s like most things, 1% are loud and the rest will accept it

They don’t license out their operating system to other companies or ever claimed it was open

They may be guilty of similar things, but not quite the same

I haven’t had an optical drive in any computer or console or other device for many years at this point

I can understand the reasoning why people think this is a bad thing but it seems this is just where things were going anyway, vote with your wallet I guess

Personally I enjoyed the fact that for the casual consumer cheap windows laptops I would need to run malware scanners on for everyone I know were effectively replaced by iPads and iPhones

The moment other stores are introduced we will go back to the same nonsense, the older open options are still available, why isn’t that enough choice?

I’ll always remember going to a rise against concert and scalpers outside were saying “tickets for rise against the machine”, they have no idea what they are selling

I guess the point is that if you don’t have the disc then they can take it away from you

The way I see it is this has enabled companies to upgrade and rerelease games and keep them operational on newer hardware