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I'm not talking about companies that use windows vs companies that use mac but about the systems themselves. It's very possible that most companies that use macs are generally better equipped, treat their devices better, upgrade more often, etc.. But that's a correlation, not a causation. You are right about the quality baseline because apple forces them to buy very specific hardware. But if they'd instead spend the same money for a windows machine and set it up decently, I would prefer that by a lot. MacOS is just terrible. It's less keyboard friendly, always messy, forces users into a overpriced and shitty proprietary lock-in ecosystem, etc.

I'm not sure how long I'll say that though since microsoft really manages to make windows so much worse with every version they release, it has also reached a barely usable state to be honest.

I care about freedom. In that regard, mac is easily the worst of the three. Also, it kinda combines the downsides of both:

1. Being proprietary crap that tries to force you into using it a specific way and does shit in the background nobody ever asked for
2. Not being compatible with some proprietary soft- or hardware

I hate windows with a passion but would take it anytime if mac would be the only other option.

Yes, I just tried it and I am in awe :D

If this works, it's a game changer!! I would have neede this two days ago xD Will try it later!

If you've got a selfhosted nextcloud, install the news app/extension and use the respective nextcloud news app on android. It's great and you don't loose your subscriptions, favourites and read status when changing phone or reinstalling...

Ibm replaces COBOL: Great idea

... with Java: Questionable idea

... using an LLM: Exceptionally bad idea

The problem is how do we get there? In a market there will always be actors powerful enough to corrupt the governmenta and influence regulation in an undemocratic way.

This is invaluable!

The webaite could be nicer, but I wouldn't call that a big problem. Plain debian is mostly used for webservers or by users with at least some linux experience. These won't struggle that much with clicking the right link on the website.

Sure, just give evee a "rock stone" :P

I can't decide which one is my favourite. But thanks for the tipp, flameshot seems really amazing!

Um actually... Opera and Edge weren't always based on chromium!

Saying it like that is no problem and not ambiguous. Writing it like that makes no sense though.

Plain debian testing with the desktop of your choice (I like xfce). Rolling release, slightly newer packages than ubuntu, very stable and reliable, as minimalist and light weight as you want (depends on installation method).

I really wonder how americans were able to fuck this one up. There are three ways to arrange these and two of them are acceptable!

Edit: Yes, I meant common ways, not combinatorically possible ways.

Just tried it. Seems cool, but slightly laggy on my phone. Infinity runs butter smooth!

Voyager is nice, but since it's a native app I can't download pictures anymore, so I switched to infinity and got used to it...

I'm more of a 10 sauces for 1 nugget kinda guy.

Yes I also remember it as pretty awesome! It had some normal windows fails, like the search in explorer searching through many file formats content instead of only just file names (which would be a reasonable default), thus being slow, needing to build a search index (doing heavy work in the background on its own, which is terrible) and making it super weird to navigate the results. And of course windows update, which was always enormously heavy and slow and required reboots. And of course hiding file extensions by default (I think they still do it. Who the fuck is so damn stupid to make this the default?! Heck, I wouldn't even allow this setting at all).

Thinking of it, these three little examples all stayed the same or got even much worse with later versions (updates!). E.g. in win10 the explorer search is still unusable but they managed to fuck up the start menu search as well (which worked well in win7).

Not sure if software enshittification really makes people switch. I wish they would but I'm not convinced. I'd say the windows freefall started after windows 7:

8 was universally agreed to be complete horseshit because they were trying to make it work for both, touch and keyboard/mouse, which obviously failed.

10 felt like a sponsored-by-ads freemium cheap spyware, adding even more inconsistencies with these different system settings windows, adding cortana which literally not a single person on earth wanted to use but was hard to disable/remove and embracing the microsoft store which is the most cursed shithole of all (including google playstore which is already bad enough).

11 Is just like 10 but takes away essential settings, making every professional users workflow 40% slower for no reason.

Win7 also had issues, but it felt much more usable for professional use. Also much less bloated with bullcrap nobody ever asked for (preinstalled candycrush anyone?). So for me that was clearly peak windows. Obviously, every half-decent linux distro was at least as good, many were better even from a pure users perspective. After that, linux desktops got better and windows got worse. Nowadays its no competition if you ask me. But still, few people swicht from the pre-installed OS...