foxmccloud64 said:
I for one, used mac before since like the year 2000, but I had to change at one point due to compatibitilty on some programs to Windows 7, personally even with suposedly superior specs(more RAM, higher clock speeds etc.) to mac, PCs always had somewhat of a slower performance and was a little bit more prone to getting stuck, but all in all with Windows 7 was fine, but then I had to update again, and Oh lord, Windows 10 is heavy, effing resource consuming, crashes all the time for one reason or another, I had to keep open task manager open at all times to kill the damn web browsers when they freeze or another applications when they don't exit properly, I also have had fatal errors auto turning off the PC and even I had to backtrack a driver update, when it killed the option to dim the brightness of the screen, those last kind of problems I haven't seen since the times of more ancient windows systems on my father's computers and since I skipped Vista and 8 and their problems, but goddamn, I have been testing some linux distros, but they are still rough around the edges and sometimes even simpler operations get complicated, am also thinking on the possibility of getting a Mac next depending how the system and it's performance seem to be faring lately, because that brand sometimes also does remove or overcomplicates things that weren't broken years ago. |
I've noticed the same, Windows 10 is the worst windows I've used in a decade. Incompatibility issues aside, for half a year my screen wouldn't turn off anymore, first because it won't turn off when charging a controller, then because it won't turn off with a flight stick connected. Then even with just a mouse and external keyboard, it still would regularly leave the screen on for no reason and never go to sleep.
I have had tons of slowdown from background indexing (disabled), unnecessary memory compression (disabled I have 32GB RAM, no need to compress memory in use) and many other background processes that only make things slower instead of what they're for. And still Windows 10 can get so unresponsive you can't even get the task manager to appear. Plus I often had to force reboot after it wouldn't wake up anymore from sleep.
My wife is on Windows 10 as well and she has to re-install the printer driver every time she wants to print something. Always a printing error, remove printer, scan, add printer, and it prints again. I use the same printer, never a problem...
My oldest has a MacBook since June. He says it's great, no issues and often helps out my wife now when she needs shipping labels created/printed. Windows is a mess. It takes me 24h to backup the (128GB) data from my wife's iPhone since Windows keeps aborting the copy if you try to copy too much at one time. So I have to copy in small batches, one directory at a time and for the bigger ones, split them in parts. (After praying to the universe to actually get Windows to list files on the iPhone in File Explorer)
At least I assume iPhone should be more compatible with Mac than Windows. So hopefully it won't take me days anymore to backup her phone lol.
Anyway Firefox on Mac, does it work just as well?
