One for my comp/techy fellas. I have a Lenovo Yoga 730 which is a fairly decent laptop. It's expensive (I paid near 700 dollars for it when I graduated high school) and so I expected good things. Personally I'm an Apple guy (I like the controlled, cool climate of how Apple runs stuff) but I never bought a MacBook because I felt more at home with Windows. Except...Windows has so much going on (in comparison to Apple) that there are just so many more "breaking points." So that said, my Lenovo stopped working less than a year in due to a "known issue" so since I needed a spare laptop to do school work in the meantime, I bought a $400 MacBook Air (Early 2015 base model) from a friend. I've never used the MacOS before so I'm now a week in and learning. Some stuff is weird (the fn, control, option and CMD buttons and their positions) that still get to me as well as scrolling up/down being inverted. Other stuff include: - Just minimizing and maximizing windows. I really wish a window page could open full size screen and then I could minimize that. And then...clicking on the icon at the bottom would bring up the page again and so on. - Desktop "icons" don't snap in neat columns. - Not knowing how to make the bottom taskbar smaller Don't get me wrong, I do like stuff like the search feature + the ease of texting through the message app on my laptop and also face timing from my laptop but still I feel unsettled. I'll probably fix my Lenovo and alternate between the two (a lot of modern industry is shifting to the Mac) so I want to be proficient in both OS systems. Let me know your thoughts if you've experience both. I love talking tech.
I have never understood people's fascination with MacOS. It just feels so backwards in comparison, and I do not like Apple's dictatorial approach to use of their products and services. I remember using it when I was working as a media tech a few years back, and there were no shortage of issues that could have been more easily resolved had we been using a Windows computer rather than a Mac.
My family and I basically only use Macs. I don't think we have anything against Windows or other PCs, it's just that we're used to it and my parents suck at using tech. Our oldest one was an iMac G5 and it's barely functioning(nobody uses it anymore, so I don't know what its current condition is). I'm an iSheep myself, so I can't really judge.
I've had to use Macs at school ever since grade school and I've always hated them. I don't think there is a single thing about the MacOS system that I like more than Windows. Everything that it different between the two (which is practically everything) I prefer the Windows version of. The layout, the options, everything. I just don't understand how people even use Macs, as they just seem like a chaotic mess to my and it feels like you can barely do anything on them (although that last point may just be do to me still being rather unfamiliar with the system).
There's also the third-party of using Linux, which is getting better, easier, more user-friendly, and more software and game compatible every year. And if you're partial to the user interface of Windows or of Mac, you can mimic (and surpass) either one very easily on Linux: Gnome desktop environment functions a lot like Mac but better, and KDE (or XFCE for battery life on a laptop) can be like Windows but a lot more customizable. It's just hard to find a laptop that lets you install anything but the default OS on it these days... I agree with the Mac-haters above. It's too restricted, too my-way-is-better, too limited with personalization, too incompatible with games... there's generally nothing I like about it. Windows lets you do what you want (at least W7 and older), can get you partially under the hood, and is the platform for games. Everything about it is better than Mac for me.
