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>Phone home telemetry and ads in OS ?

MacOS also has telemetry.

>For backend stuff it's almost implicit that you're running on Linux in prod and macos is well supported because it's fairly similar.

Then Windows would be better than MacOS in this regard because WSL2 is exactly Linux, not just "fairly similar" to Linux.

>stuff randomly breaking between updates

What stuff broke for you between updates? Our entire DS team develops in windows + WSL2 and nothing broke for them in ~5 years. Maybe they know how to use a computer.

Ultimately just use what you like and what makes you productive, no need to crusade for some big corporation. The OS is just a tool for your job, like a hammer.

> Right click -> Remove. Done. 2 seconds.

Surely you aren't making the argument that Microsoft is generous enough to let you remove their bloatware?

That's a nice strawman you got there, give him a spin so we can admire it in all its glory.

My dude I literally quoted what you said, at least before you edited your comment to remove it.

>My dude I literally quoted what you said

You quoted what I said then turned it into this strawman for a snarky jab: "Surely you aren't making the argument that Microsoft is generous enough to let you remove their bloatware?"

>at least before you edited your comment to remove it.

I removed more points because the comment was getting huge.

You posted a comment that seems to have a thesis of “Windows isn’t actually as bad as you think it is”. Is that correct? If not, what were you trying to convey? If you had posted your statement in isolation or in a different context it might have a different meaning but I’m not seeing many interpretations here besides “yeah it’s actually super easy to remove this junk so it’s not a big deal”. The question is why it’s there in the first place?

> Maybe they know how to use a computer.

Seems uncalled for.

Why? If your only feedback is "stuff randomly breaks" and unable to provide more on-point technical specifics, maybe you're not qualified enough. No shame in that. If I tell my mechanic "something randomly breaks on my car" he'll also know I'm clueless, and that's alright, not everyone's a car mechanic.

> MacOS also has telemetry.

And who do I trust more - company that bundles third party crap ware and openly talks about OS ads as monetization avenue. Or a company selling me xxxx$ machine and wanting to sell me a next one with the OS in the future. As much as I dislike Apple walled garden - their incentive structure is way more aligned with me than Microsoft desktop.

> Then Windows would be better than MacOS in this regard because WSL2 is exactly Linux, not just "fairly similar" to Linux.

Haven't seen that be better than a VM.

Doing anything WSL on Windows FS is dog slow and vice versa, split toolsets conflicts (different git config between host and guest, different SSH). Just SSH into a VM - it's a way better experience - the boundaries are clear and the editors know the implications of working on a remote machine.

Not saying you can't use Windows, but you can also eat from a trough - I just prefer not to.

>And who do I trust more

You throw a lot of stones considering how fragile your glass house is. Apples is the same company that wanted to scan your phone, that you bought and own, for child porn and report you to the authorities if something was found.

How you or anyone can blindly trust them after that is beyond me. Trust no major corporation regardless of how shiny their products are is my life motto.

>Haven't seen that be better than a VM.

It is, that's why people use it. Look up tutorials online.

Windows 11'a main sin is Edge IMO. The start menu junk is shitty, but can be dealt with in matters of minutes. On the dev part, WSL2 basically make the point moot, an actual debian is way easier to deal with than brew.

Now have you tried uninstalling Apple Music ? or found a way to disable it from launching everytime you press the play button on your headset with no media player running ?

In the last few years I've looked at every macos updates with more an more dread of things that will stop working and generic enshitification. Windows stays more "in your face" on the cheap marketing stuff, but it also brought in a lot more improvements than macos did in the last 10 years, so I don't as much difference in experience as in the past.

Linux works more often for me than Mac, but I also have two decades of experience using it, so it may just be that I am more comfortable.

With so many webtech-apps (Slack, Google calendar...) and non-native UI browsers (Firefox/Chrome), visual consistency is lost anyway, so I stopped caring (the best experience I had was with GNOME in 2.* early HIG/a11y days when I used Epiphany as the web browser) — oh yeah, I use Emacs too, so there's that :)

Still, most common Mac-as-Linux approach with Docker Desktop is an incompatible emulation layer (eg. local UIDs are transformed into root UID on Mac, whereas they are not on Linux, so you get weird permission errors if you develop on Mac and rebuild/redeploy on Linux).

> MacOS is fairly visually consistent. Windows regularly has me in Windows XP era screens, reached through 3 inconsistent UX steps developed along the way.

I take that as a feature and is the whole crux of this discussion. I don't need ODBC or many such archaic features but if someday I need to use it, I trust it will be working.

> Dealing with Windows dev environment is always a PITA eventually - unless you're doing stuff where Windows is first class citizen (like games). For backend stuff it's almost implicit that you're running on Linux in prod and macos is well supported because it's fairly similar. On Windows it's always some path issues, stuff randomly breaking between updates, missing/incompatible CLI, etc.

YMMV but my experience is the opposite. Windows is a perfectly usable dev environment. The only time I face issues is when developers don’t choose to use cross platform tools.

> Chocolatey is garbage.

I’ll give you this one, but that’s why anyone serious on Windows is using scoop.

Windows Pro (and K/N versions), as well as Enterprise, should minimize the consumer-oriented software.