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Comment by mkl | Hacker News Reader

That's kind of terrifying. It's hard to understand how that could be possible in a modern OS.

Apple’s code quality is way down. The OS has become more complex and distributed due to ambitious projects like userspace drivers and the separate “T” CPU that manages Touch Bar and security functions; yet they don’t seem to invest in stability versus churning out a release every autumn, damn the bugs and torpedoes.

For me, Mojave on a 2017 15” MBP crashes hard about once a week. I remember Windows 98 being roughly as stable. It’s immensely disappointing.

>For me, Mojave on a 2017 15” MBP crashes hard about once a week.

That's insane. Think I've seen one crash on my windows machines this year

same with Ubuntu, it's rock solid

My Windows PC at work didn't have a working start menu and task bar for about 3 weeks. Since the newest update I can at least use them now but search is still broken.

It's a known bug and the only workaround right now is to re-enable Bing search in the start menu which I cannot do due to company policy.

Windows is just as bad.

My father in laws windows laptop doesn’t crash, but slows down so much it’s unusable every windows update. He gave me his laptop to fix it recently and it took 6 hours to get the update through before it sped up again. We’re buying him a used MacBook now

About 20 coworkers use Windows 10.

Only one crash in 2 years.

FWIW I'm also running Mojave on a 2017 15" MBP and I can't remember the last time it's crashed. It's probably been months since I even restarted it.

If you use all 3 desktop OS, it doesn't take very long to notice macOS has the worst code quality.

For me, Apple in 2019 is a has been.

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