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I haven’t used Apple devices back when they were good so I have always avoided all the built-in Apple bloat/adware.

Because I came from Windows this was already my standard assumption - I need to violently throw out all the built-in stuff and replace it with free and good software.

It’s funny because that means I never felt the same pain you feel; I just assumed that’s how operating systems are.

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As a Linux user, I feel like a different breed here: I'm pretty sure the software I'll be using 10 years from now will be pretty much the same, and I'm happy about that.

I recently dusted off a CentOS 5 file server that hadn’t been powered on in a decade. It’s familiar but a lot has changed.

But to your point it has changed less than Windows or MacOS.

> I'm pretty sure the software I'll be using 10 years from now will be pretty much the same

It will be better, in ways I can't predict. But almost every detail of the interaction will improve somehow. But probably no big changes on the more mature parts.

Oh, and it will have one infuriating thing that people keep doing wrong because everybody insists it's the right way. I'll lose some small functionality for disabling it.

That's how it has ever been.

That means you also haven’t used Windows back when it was good.

I did use win98 briefly, which was bearable but it also wasn’t good. You are probably referring to an even older version

I’m referring to the era from Windows 2000 to Windows 7.

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