I suspect some of the less positive comments are folks commenting are likely on their 15th or 20th laptops, over just as many years.
When the death count gets that high - it's easier to call it buying the eventual death of a new laptop. Buying a new laptop has become a somber affair to go along with the eventual reinstall of your entire setup far too soon.
Luckily there are tools today that make this much less painful.
This particular bug, however, required use of Notepad++ instead for years. Repeat for every other missing or broken piece of MS tech. Vista was so bad I was willing to suffer on the spot switching to Mac.
I'll accept this is as a symbolic peace offering - years of having to install a separate text editor and lots of other unnecessary won't get back that time.
There's a lot of innovation coming out from MS, something we normally wouldn't have said even 3-4 years ago.
Looking forward to the increased linux integration to continue, and have a good look. Until then, MacOS, despite it's aging warts, just works and stays invisible for the most part.
When the death count gets that high - it's easier to call it buying the eventual death of a new laptop. Buying a new laptop has become a somber affair to go along with the eventual reinstall of your entire setup far too soon.
Luckily there are tools today that make this much less painful.
This particular bug, however, required use of Notepad++ instead for years. Repeat for every other missing or broken piece of MS tech. Vista was so bad I was willing to suffer on the spot switching to Mac.
I'll accept this is as a symbolic peace offering - years of having to install a separate text editor and lots of other unnecessary won't get back that time.
There's a lot of innovation coming out from MS, something we normally wouldn't have said even 3-4 years ago.
Looking forward to the increased linux integration to continue, and have a good look. Until then, MacOS, despite it's aging warts, just works and stays invisible for the most part.