Now, when upgrading, I think I'll buy a mac. I can't be bothered to deal with this crap any more.
But on the mac side, there's a lot of blocking of non-store apps and general walled garden-ness? Or is this just something I've conjured up in my paranoid mind?
As someone who has used windows from 1995 to 1999 and, on my secondary workstation, OSX since 2015: MS is just catching up on what Crapple has been doing for a very long time and thus MS is not as sophisticated when it comes to providing a user friendly experience that comes with telemetry. Install Little Snitch on OSX (app level fw) and you'll have just as many WTF-moments as with Windows 10.
> But on the mac side, there's a lot of blocking of non-store apps and general walled garden-ness?
Same difference (see above).
The question boils down to whether UX is more important than privacy for you. If you favor UX, use OSX, if you favor privacy, use a UNIX with a very strict local FW. For me, the answer is to carry two laptops: A small and cheap apple device for fun and a lenovo thingy (don't dare to call it a laptop) for serious work.
Take this stuff elsewhere please, thanks.
Just an FYI, I stopped reading and downvoted when you started with childish name calling.
PS: If you read MS as "MickeySoft" as I do, does it help?
Sometimes that's the best way to express the full weight of an opinion. Diluting the expression changes its meaning.
It's a walled garden, but the walls aren't as tall on the desktop OS. Yet.
So far I've been able to figure out everything I need. I may have to do our taxes on my wife's computer, unless the tax software will run under wine. Although I suppose I could run a VM with Win 10 just to do the taxes.
That's what I've been doing for quite a few years now (WinXP, then Win7) and it works well. Catching up on Windows updates once a year takes almost as long as doing my taxes. :-O
The other alternative is to do your taxes online, but that is a Really Bad Idea IMHO.
In addition, the attack surface of a company providing tax services on the internet is huge compared to a powered down VM on a machine that I know is physically secure and (IMHO) well secured against hackers.
[1] In a famous apocryphal story, Willie Sutton was asked by reporter Mitch Ohnstad why he robbed banks. According to Ohnstad, he replied, "Because that's where the money is." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Sutton#Sutton.27s_law
Maybe I'm fighting a losing battle, but I still value my privacy.
It's no use comparing a rolling release to whatever OSX is.
Overall I find it nicer to work in Fedora than Ubuntu fwiw.
I don't know what i'm doing wrong, hell the reason I want to go with fedora is because I work with redhat based systems at work, so it's more familiar, but it just seems so unstable.
I don't like fascism, even half of it. So I don't like Arch, mainly because of the often times toxic community. How good pacman then may be - becomes irrelevant.
Ubuntu is most polished desktop distro, and it's absolutely horrible, so I don't use linux on a desktop.
That said, I'll be checking this out for my Windows 10 rig (for gaming).
Except the maximize button.
And scrolling.
that's why I wiped MacOSX and installed Ubuntu.
Also, I haven't come across any "blocked" apps. I am unsure of the walled garden some others are referring too!
And display management.
And file management.
And you can only launch one instance of an app at a time.
And you have to wait forever for Apple to update your hardware.
And they are so, so, so many other problems with macOS. It's laughable how much is broken.
Edit I remember now that I didn't install it through the App Store.
* keyboard layout (fn and ctrl was swapped but only on laptop and small wireless, not the fullsize keyboard) and
* modifier keys (e.g. no consistent way to jump one word ahead).
Some of my colleagues used it and loved it though, and I very much tried to myself but failed utterly.