I remember the days when we'd pay $99 or something for a new #macOS release and I gladly did it because the releases were great.
Nowadays I wait till I'm forced to update because there's nothing new for me except problems. I'd prefer to pay if they did a release of just bugfixes and no new rewrites / useless features.
@nicd I'm yet to switch to mac os. But from an outsider perspective, I don't remember them ever having a smooth dist upgrade.
@1P1sces oh, absolutely. I dodged ME and stopped using it around XP. I was already observing stuff like Vista fiasco and windows 8 from the sidelines. I am using #Windows10, and it's a really great OS, but I'm not inclined to switch to #Windows11. I would say that I dislike #Microsoft dist-upgrades even more, because when they get one wrong they don't fix it for several years until the next upgrade 🙂
@jonn The lasting #Windows chaos is cemented in its detrimental attempt at downward-compatibility even with its pre-NT grandchildren. NT as such has some great potential, but that’s almost completely done in by erratic concepts built around the kernel.
Move to #macOS/#Linux/#BSD! It‘s going to be a revelation. 😀
@1P1sces I started using #FreeBSD alongside with #Windows when I was 14, then switched to #Linux and was using #NixOS for a while. However, as I switched to running several businesses at a time, I had no time to keep track of incompatibilities especially since the move to #flakes is an ongoing mess and I switched to #Ubuntu. For big computers, I use #Windows primarily to cater for my hobbies, which include #SimRacing.
I don't feel like I'm responsible for fighting or boycotting the companies which don't release titles for #Linux, although I'm actively supporting those that do.
