[stephenhuey]

Windows may be better but any of us born before the 90s may still have PTSD from all the pain of troubleshooting malware infestations. 17 years ago I was the primary developer of a commercial Java web app and wanted nothing to do with support phone calls but on many I had to walk our web app users through the installation of Spybot Search & Destroy just so they could get rid of something interfering with their usage of our product!

I was traumatized a few weeks ago when my parents sent me a particularly jarring video of their Windows computer with audio playing telling them to call a number to get rid of something nefarious-sounding but quickly Googled it and realized it was a bunch of popup browser pop ups pretending to be worse than they were. I don’t run into stuff like that when using Firefox on my MacBook.