Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base

• jim3692@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Finally! Someone said it! My company changed my work laptop to a Mac. It’s been a couple of months, and I still haven’t got used to the desktop environment. Navigating between open windows with regular mouse/keyboard is a pain.

  I find window grouping very annoying (this is also true for Gnome). What makes it even worse, is that the tilde is next to the left shift, instead of being above Tab. I think that’s because we have British keyboard.

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  • Lulzagna@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I never got used to it. Always felt gimped using it. At least with Windows I had shortcuts and virtual desktops.

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• howlingecko@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As someone who has used Windows, OSX, and Linux as a daily driver at different points, Windows was by far the most challenging to work with. Every week there was some problem.

  In recent years, my company provided Dell with 32GB of memory running Windows would blue screen practically weekly. Most of the time it struggled to run more than one instance of an IDE. Windows finally crashed to the point that the only option was restore the OS.

  I requested a different machine and have been running macOS with less memory. Have actually been able to run more IDE instances than the Windows machine would run. No crashes.

  Completely Unix based OSes now. Linux servers. Linux desktops. Mac laptops.

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  • Lulzagna@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Your windows problems weren’t brand new problems and likely down from there systems or integrations.

    When I say there were issues with OSX, I mean brand new problems stemming from updates breaking compatibility with systems and software. Nothing like getting to work one morning and every single employee lost the ability to screen share, or suddenly the file system for your virtual machines was broken, etc.

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• JoeDyrt@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m way past making a living in tech, and so far (5 months) my MacBook is delivering a very satisfactory user experience. I’m not thrilled with the “radical” changes coming to MacOs, but I don’t have that much invested in the current version to fret over it. So far the biggest controversy about the new OS is how the finder icon swapped colours. I can live with that! I considered and tried some Linux distros over the past few years, but there was too much intervention recruited by me the user. The “Total Recall” vibe of Windows 11 pushed me over the line.

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