[hombre_fatal]

Windows is also the "it just works" operating system, and it has hundreds of useful things you can only do through registry hacks.

It's not a very useful test.

I look at the good things about macOS over desktop linux like how cmd-c/v works across all apps, and it would be amazing if it were just a cli command to bridge the gap.

[matharmin]

In my experience, Windows is very far from a "it just works" OS.

[jug]

It's the ambition as a home user OS though, like macOS. And in the discussion of "it just works" operating systems, who else are we to go by than the vendor ambitions? Personal opinions? In that case, neither is because both struggle to always work in all scenarios since their respective inceptions.

[StilesCrisis]

When the phrase originated, manually updating CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT were expected skills of a home PC owner. The idea of buying a device, plugging it in, and having it work without a complex setup was unheard of. "It just works" on the Mac meant the absence of a DOS layer, IRQs, command lines, etc.

[friendzis]

AFAIK Windows has never been known or marketed as "it just works". It goes long way to maintain backwards compatibility, but lets not kid ourselves that it has any semblance to what Apple's "it just works" is supposed to mean.

[shiroiuma]

In what universe has Windows ever been a "it just works" OS? Not this one.