They're making interesting moves with making. They've definitely upped their game on technology, WSL2 looks really nice. The user experience on Windows is as godawful as it's ever been. One of my kids used it for a few days, and now I've already got some invasive search toolbar crap I can't get rid of, and I've shared a Mac with my kids almost all their lives (17 and 16). Two Start Menus? A horrible, kafka-esque maze of settings and config in half a dozen different UI interfaces, all of them ugly as sin. Gah, my heart sinks every time I boot into it. Other than my locked down work VDI, this is my first experience of seriously using Windows as a desktop OS in over a decade. Since upgrading to Catalina, I repartitioned my Mac to have a 1GB Windows partition for games, particularly 32-bit retro stuff. >Microsoft really understands that owning the end-user experience is key. I was pretty much with you up to this point: It's noise level compared to Windows/Mac, but that might just be what ensures there's a tiny crack of hope for desktop diversity. On the plus side, it's why I bought a laptop from System76, and paid ElementaryOS to use their distro. What future for AWS if all developers are using Windows, and it already "just works" with Azure? Microsoft really understands that owning the end-user experience is key. Amazon seems only interested in the back end and, actually, that seems like strategic myopia. I wouldn't personally touch a Chromebook given Google's insatiable desire to monetise my every keystroke. Apple seems only interested in consumers. But I don't see anyone meaningfully challenging Microsoft. With Azure on the back.Īs a developer, I don't want to only have a single choice. Teams - with office365 - is the new "Windows" - the platform that Microsoft wants to dominate end-user computing with on the front end. The deep integration of Teams into W11 is a pivotal step. "Windows", though, is really not the way to think about the platform. Hence subsuming Android and Linux into the platform. Whereas the original Windows commoditised the underlying hardware, current "Windows" is commoditising operating systems. Microsoft is being very smart - and successful - in their strategy. That wasn't good first time around and I don't see it being any better if repeated. Not because I'm avidly anti-Microsoft, but because all the portents are we're heading back to the place where Microsoft dominates the desktop, with no practical alternatives. > It seems MS is much more on top of making Windows developer friendly than Apple is currently. Perhaps it never was: the mass adoption of macs in the early-mid 2000s might just have been a fortuitous accident, not somethgin Apple ever courted. Apple seems entirely disinterested in the former market segment. Mac-as-a-developer-workstation, not Mac-as-a-consumer-dvice. It wouldn't be hard to do for Apple but for some reason they are not interested in that anymore. It seems MS is much more on top of making Windows developer friendly than Apple is currently. I could easily switch to Linux or Windows and use the same tools. I user Firefox for browsing, homebrew, docker, Intellij, VS Code, Darktable for photos, etc. The reason I use macs is mainly because it's nice hardware with a unix like OS. But I appreciate that it's nice for people buying into the whole Apple everything experience. Most of this review is about applications that Apple bundles with the OS that compete with third party stuff that I use and prefer. I recently updated my macbook pro but aside from some minor icon rearranging in the menu bar, I can't really tell the difference with last year's edition. OpenGL support is a deprecated afterthought meaning that a lot of OSS stuff either won't work or barely works. Dropping 32 bit means my steam library is now full of stuff that no longer works. It's gotten a lot more anal about requiring signed binaries and micromanaging permissions. The base OS has mostly gotten worse actually. So, like with most OS X / Mac OS releases of the last half decade, there's actually very little (if anything) I can point at that actually genuinely is an improvement for me. I don't use keynote, pages, iMovie, Garageband, etc. In general, I don't really use a lot of the services and apps that come with macs. I use macs but don't use iphones/ipads and instead prefer Android.
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