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by crazygringo 5 days ago
> And who in 2026 is still anal-fixated on a "Windows" PC?

I'm assuming it's just clarifying this isn't about Macs.

The term "PC" is ambiguous, since it can either refer to all personal computers in its original meaning, or to the IBM PC lineage that is mainly contrasted with Macs. Remember the famous "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads.

When you just say "PC", people today genuinely don't know which meaning you are referring to. And "IBM PC" is antiquated, and "IBM PC clone" is even worse. So "Windows PC" is a pretty decent name.

Do you have a better suggestion? Because "Non-Mac PC" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. If you say "Windows PC", everyone knows what you mean.

And it's not an "anal fixation", there's no need to be gratuitously insulting.
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Aperocky 5 days ago
Well, there's the other problem, windows sucks.

I prefer Windows XP, or even Windows Vista, to Windows 11 with its copilot. And it's been a downhill race, even macs are more of your own personal machine than Windows today, which is saying a lot.

PC should be a PC, Windows is as they advertised, a Copilot PC.

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