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Windows 11 is so bad. But I also don’t like what Apple does, with locking down their devices, the terrible iOS 18 changes, the upselling of their other services, the censorship, etc. There’s really no alternative though - I still find Linux to be unusable for daily use because random things don’t work well with it, but also mainly because battery life on Linux laptops is terrible. How do we get out of having just these two choices?


Windows 11 is quite bad, but so is 10 (just to a lesser extent), and 8/8.1. It’s really been a downward trend since 7.

macOS isn’t great these days either, it’s been downhill since somewhere around 10.13 I’d say. The last truly great release, imo, was 10.9.

There unfortunately isn’t a great OS answer if you just want a “regular computer,” from Apple or MS.




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