Comment by tempodox
10 months ago
> For years, many of us have willingly paid the "Apple tax", the premium price for Apple products justified by superior user experience, design, and ecosystem integration. But if software quality continues to decline, this value proposition becomes increasingly difficult to defend.
Just today I was thinking how the best hardware gets crippled by software that has become as shitty as Microsoft's.
By now it has become incredible that “Doesn't Suck” was once motto and slogan for the user experience on Apple devices.
> as shitty as Microsoft's.
If I ever feel down on the Mac, I can go to a PC and try make a pdf or view one. Clunky AF.
Mac software might be at a low-point, but it hasn’t burnt down yet.
> If I ever feel down on the Mac, I can go to a PC and try make a pdf or view one.
After a restart (which happens a lot because the machine crashes a lot[0]), my Windows 10 box won't be "ready for use" for a good 10 minutes. I've seen it take 30 minutes. I've done macOS updates that have taken less time.
Oh and macOS doesn't randomly reboot to apply updates. Still haven't found a way to prevent Windows from doing that.
[0] I suspect the 3080 but it frequently crashes when idle on the desktop which shouldn't be stressing anything GPU-wise.
There is a tool called Windows Update Blocker which i use on a Win10 server that i run:
https://www.sordum.org/9470/windows-update-blocker-v1-8/
I don't really get this criticism. If I want to make a PDF, I open up Word and save as PDF. To open it, I double click the file.
You can save anything you can print as a PDF since what, Windows 7? And the OS comes with a PDF reader since what, Windows 8?
And Word comes bundled by default on windows?
> And the OS comes with a PDF reader since what, Windows 8?
Which one, the Edge browser? Don't you have to install Sumatra PDF or Acrobat?
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Just today I was thinking how the best hardware gets crippled by software that has become as shitty as Microsoft's.
Apple software has always been crap. People put up with it because the hardware was nice and shiny and distracted from the many bugs and severe UI issues.