> Re-installing an OS is free (both the materials and, for Apple customers who don't know how to do it themselves, the service).
To make a semi-unrelated quote from Jamie Zawinski, "Linux is only free if your time has no value."
To make a semi-unrelated quote from Jamie Zawinski, "Linux is only free if your time has no value."
I spent hours trying to stabilise my wife's XPS13 after a recent Windows Update sent it into paroxysms of BSODs. Reset, reimaged, the whole nine yards: nothing. Ended up installing Ubuntu on it and it's been rock-solid stable since.
I've always wondered if Ubuntu was introduced to a child would they learn to use it just as fast as a child that uses Windows? All the times I've used Ubuntu it's exactly the same as windows without all the distraction.
I've known a couple of other fathers that had the same experience. But it isn't common.
Nothing just works quite like something that simply hasn't changed.
In the amount of time I used to spend in a month making sure macOS wasn't on the brink; a couple weeks ago I investigated and implemented a feature in a system component, one that is not present on any commercially available desktop operating system.
Now my input method client displays language-appropriate glyph variants based on the input method's locale, and you just managed to get the App Store to shut up, or fix some of your homebrew after a system upgrade.
What was it you were having to do to maintain macOS?