Time to divorce Apple

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Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

mac was always bad, OP

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Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

Bloody posted:

its a good os

for me to poop on

# ¿ Apr 4, 2017 18:53

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

infernal machines posted:

Microsoft releases an operating system that:

- Fails to unify UX, adding yet another layer onto the several layers of system configuration cruft that has accumulated over the last two decades or so
- Forces itself onto user's computers without permission and uses misleading dialog boxes to prevent people from opting-out. This breaks numerous systems due to poorly-thought-out scenarios on Microsofts end, and cause untold millions (possibly billions) of dollars in lost productivity due to factory and lab shutdowns, among other things where Windows 10 drivers simply were not available.
- Puts advertising in the start menu, the file manager, and several apps
- Puts Facebook games in its flagship enterprise product
- Tracks users through numerous means, surreptitiously evades prevention by overriding hosts file entries
- Forces updates on users in the name of security, but simultaneously removes patch notes from updates and combines "feature" and security updates
- Misses a "patch tuesday", enabling zero days to stay in the wild at least a month longer than necessary
- Ignores security flaw reports going back to 2016 forcing Google to release them under it's "Project Zero" policies. Microsoft chooses not take take advantage of the grace period offered
- Implements a system that dovetails with United States National Security Letters, allowing the US government control and targeting of every Windows 10 PC on the planet

And goons post fervently in defense of their company.

those are all good reasons to use windows 7

and its not like product placement in windows is something new, has everyone forgotten that windows 95 was literally an AOL trial disk

# ¿ Apr 4, 2017 19:45

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

My Linux Rig posted:

i guess they rightly figured that would be a feature only autists would use

# ¿ Apr 8, 2017 04:30

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

carry on then posted:

the dock was placed on the bottom and always in view by steve jobs, in his grace

to deviate is to commit sacrilege

hmmmmmm

# ¿ Apr 8, 2017 08:10

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