They're going from Microsoft to... Linux. From bad to worse. Just use macOS and get on with your life.
The monster that ate Windows have already started eating Mac OS.
2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
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#12“They've managed to take some of their most revolutionary technological innovations (the NT kernel's hybrid design allowing it to restart drivers, NTFS, ReFS, WSL, Hyper-V, etc.) then just shat all over them”.
Well said. I wonder what the kernel team thinks about it.
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#13See, now this is how a website *should* look: mainly text, with non-obtrusive ads at the bottom. It's really not that hard!
There's a stickied ad at the bottom that says
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#14If this wasn’t HN, I would swear that my personal recommendation algorithm has gotten Linux desktop-pilled and that’s why I’m seeing so many posts like these every day. But in reality I think there is a groundswell of momentum happening here, and with component prices rising, I only see this continuing as more people look to breathe new life into older hardware.
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#16They're going from Microsoft to... Linux. From bad to worse. Just use macOS and get on with your life.
The ai and liquid glass rollouts do not inspire confidence in the future of macOS.
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#17They're going from Microsoft to... Linux. From bad to worse. Just use macOS and get on with your life.
Can’t stand the MacOS UI philosophy and built in software. Gotta skip. The hardware is pretty good though.
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#18They're going from Microsoft to... Linux. From bad to worse. Just use macOS and get on with your life.
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#19They're going from Microsoft to... Linux. From bad to worse. Just use macOS and get on with your life.
I’m going from macOS to linux currently. It was the hardware obsolesence that kicked things off but I definitely wont miss the constant nagging about my iCloud being full
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#20I’d love to be a fly on the wall at Microsoft right now, to see if they are in red alert to get users back, planning subterfuge by breaking APIs used by Wine or what have you, or if they are taking it as a loss. I recently jumped to Debian/KDE as a daily driver, and it feels great. I am coming after many years of running Linux via cli on my home server. I am also unironically enjoying wobbly windows.
I think they have moved on to other sources of revenue, so I don't think they care that much anymore.