[amanzi]

I've never seen a bug like that on Windows. Honestly, it feels like a lot of Mac users live in a bubble where Windows is a buggy pile of crap. Meanwhile most Windows users around the world are getting on with life on a stable OS with a great choice of hardware. While nothing's perfect, Windows is in a really good place at the moment.

[swiley]

As a Linux user I feel like windows users live in a bubble where where computers are more or less expected to behave like diseased wild animals rather than machines.

[deif]

Good joke. Sounds like you haven't used windows since ME.

[swiley]

I came up with that idea (windows makes computers behave like organisms and not machines) during an internship where everyone was required to use corporate computers running Windows 10.

I haven’t used it on a personal computer since XP though so I guess you’re not far off.

[machinecoffee]

Diseased animal fits Windows 8.0 quite nicely I think.

[swah]

On the other hand, I could scale my external monitor perfectly with W10, while on Linux the answer is still xrandr. Which makes everything blurry. Unless you scale Gnome/KDE to 2x and downscale.. which makes everything slow.

Gah... i hate computers.

[scruple]

> While nothing's perfect, Windows is in a really good place at the moment.

Sure, minus the fact that my Windows box would be _spying on me_ if I wasn't a very technically capable person. That's a non-trivial driver for a lot of folks when they decide to pick Apple products. Or, at least, it was until recently with the iCloud / China debacle.

[Faark]

Except that I can not open "Windows Search settings", since it crashes after loading a few seconds. And all the other shit. It might not be as bad as this Mac update, I don't feel confident doing a comparison. But certainly take issue with "Windows is in a really good place at the moment"

[banachtarski]

Not OP but there will always be counterexamples for any software with a sufficient number of users. I've never experienced the bug you're referring to.

[jitbit]

I've spent 15 years on a Mac before switching (back) to Windows *

I must say that Windows has... changed... In a good way. But that's not even the point. The point everyone keeps forgetting, is that OSX is tightly coupled with native Apple hardware, while Windows has to work on a zoo of devices.

[*] I actually blogged about this here, sorry for a shameless plug: https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/277-back-to-pc-after-14-year...

[ricardobeat]

My brand new PC running Windows 10 will simply not wake up from sleep, requiring a hard restart. A google search turns up thousands of similar complaints (and no solution).

[MetallicCloud]

I had the same issue. A bios update was what fixed it for me.

[CrazyStat]

You must not have ever used Windows 98.

[evgenyp]

It was released 21 years ago and its extended support ended 13 years ago