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1725 points taubek | 1 comments | 27 Mar 23 05:20 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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oliwarner ◴[27 Mar 23 07:25 UTC] No.35323842[source]▶
I left Windows in a hail of Vista bugs, over a decade ago. I've seen it get worse and worse in that time, both in UX rot and anti-consumer "features".

I'm almost impressed with what people willingly put up with.

Not here to eulogize over what I moved to, but I think it's important people consider why they're still using Windows. It's not your friend.

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globular-toast ◴[27 Mar 23 09:34 UTC] No.35324638[source]▶
Last Windoze I used was XP. Back then most geeks reinstalled the OS from scratch every few months or so. This was necessary to combat the inevitable rot that happened to every installation. There was always a number of things that were necessary to install to make the system usable every time. We worked out how to streamline some things by building custom installation discs. But there was still a load of effort and accumulated knowledge applied to just using the damn thing.

I'd been playing with Linux for a while but hadn't got beyond the dual-booting phase. Then at some point I realised that if I put as much effort into Linux to learn how things worked etc. it would probably be just as good in practice. Why did I continue to put up with Windows? Turns out I was right. I haven't had Windoze in my house for well over a decade at this point. I never had to use Vista. One of the best choices I ever made.

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1. themadturk ◴[27 Mar 23 17:17 UTC] No.35329406[source]▶
I got my first MacBook around the time Vista came out and thereby was able to skip Vista on my own machine. My employers continued to use XP for several years, and (after a long period of unemployment during the Great Recession) I couldn't afford a Mac next time I needed a new machine. Now after a couple of years with a ho-hum Dell Latitude 13 that cost $1200, I'm using a MacBook Air M1 that cost less and performs far, far better and has none of the glitches and issues Windows and Intel are famous for.