[danfromberlin]

This quote doesn't inspire so much confidence:

“The thing we were terrified about when switching over to PC’s, was learning Windows, but it wasn’t as bad as we thought, especially because we spend the majority of our time in Adobe® Premier Pro and the interface is exactly the same.”

[avtar]

You're right but there's also truth to what you quoted. I switched to Windows 10 earlier this year and before doing so I had concerns about privacy issues, malware, and the half-baked UI. The following three solutions somewhat addressed the privacy and malware concerns:

* https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

* https://www.malwarebytes.com/antimalware/

* https://www.glasswire.com/

I use Wox [1] as an Alfred replacement so most of my interactions with applications is via that. Other than that most of my time is spent in tiled browser windows, editors or IDEs, and terminals so I could really be using any OS. I wouldn't say it's perfect but using OS X and then Arch involved different compromises.

[1] https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/

[lj3]

Thanks for these. You wouldn't happen to know of a decent windows terminal app, would you? I'm using ConEmu and man alive does it suck.

[avtar]

Mintty is the best one I've come across. It even works with WSL https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

[lj3]

Awesome. You, sir, are my hero.

[avtar]

You're very welcome :) And here's my ~/.minttyrc with, IMO, a better version of Solarized Dark compared to what I found in search results:

https://www.pastery.net/ujprbd/

[threefour]

That actual inspires confidence for me. I expect the opposite -- for HP's marketing people to scrub out anything that isn't positive, and the fact that they're being honest here is refreshing.

[baldfat]

The decades of Apple Marketing on the disaster of the Windows UI is seriously the biggest barrier for these people.

I do some sub-contracting on Video projects (My expertise is audio) and the "creative crowd" since the 1990s has made Apple apart of their identity. Most shops were Windows shops till mid 2000s to Final Cut. Now most shops are again Adobe shops and many are switching back to Windows and it really is a weird identity crisis for many of them. Also then hate how excited I get when I see non-Apple tech replacing their machines.

[hubert123]

it does because it sounds like it's actually a real quote and it is relevant to people switching