Frustrated Windows 10 users are jumping ship to macOS.
Those new Apple users are gonna be bummed when MacOS does the same thing in the very near future.
Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs
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the_q@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The immediate regret will be when they discover that Ctrl isn’t where they expect it to be, followed by the discovery that it doesn’t get used for copy and paste anyway.
Horsey@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The very first thing I did was swap around ctrl and cmd on my mechanical keyboard.
tahoe@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Part of me wishes I was a Windows user because Microsoft gives so many good reasons to switch to Linux. But even though I don’t use any of Apple’s services, I’m just too well off on macOS, got no real reason to switch.
Not saying macOS will never suck, and it already does in some aspects, but its suck factor has been pretty stable for the last 15 years I’ve been using it.
Horsey@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It’s really sad that it’s the only major operating system that functions on API calls for UI elements. Part of what makes windows awful is the terrible UI inconsistencies between apps. 3rd party app can’t hook into the system or each other easily because there are so few shared APIs. It’s crazy that macOS has the best utility apps all because of the shared API library and that the other operating systems don’t want to copy or unify with them.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Exactly. Literally the dumbest thing they could do. All they had to do was keep their working hardware and put Linux on it. FFS
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 16 hours ago
“despite”
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
I mean MacOSX put AI in the OS, Siri, and all their apps as well so I can’t really see how the change would be do to AI. Privacy maybe
abfarid@startrek.website 15 hours ago
On MacOS, at least for now, AI isn’t prominent at all. I’ve been using an M4 Air for a month before I remembered that Apple Intelligence was a thing and had to google how to use it. So far it only seems to be partially available in 1st party Apple apps which I don’t use anyway.
zewm@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Have you actually used Siri? It’s a fucking joke Apple has no idea how to do AI. I think they will be better off than on Windows.
belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 15 hours ago
It stays out of your way though. Windows wants it to be your entire pc interface so they can charge you monthly for it eventually
casmael@mander.xyz 12 hours ago
Unfortunately the word ‘despite’ has been badly damaged as a result of the improper loads applied by this headline. It looks like it’ll be out of action for at least a couple months, maybe past the end of the season.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs
Not despite, because of.
pticrix@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Apple’s AI screwup may end up being the best move the company made since the switch to Apple silicon.
tengkuizdihar@programming.dev 10 hours ago
its like slipping on a banana to avoid a slash of a chainsaw
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
What was the apple ai screw up? I may have missed or forgotten this story.
miguel@fedia.io 10 hours ago
Basically it's garbage, Siri effectively just posts your query, sans context, to chatGPT. What comes back is hilariously bad.
If they'd integrated it "correctly", it'd probably be as bad as MS. I've played with it a bunch in the store, though my device (intel) doesn't support it at all.
BearGun@ttrpg.network 9 hours ago
For anyone who has to/wants to stay on win 10 for whatever reason, here’s a FOSS guide for enabling ESU updates, of course brought to you by a furry.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
Privacy on Windows is EOL, so Windows is too.
If you really need x86 for games, there’s SteamOS.
ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I switched to Pop OS myself. Enjoying the switch, and refuse to go back to windows now. Fuck Microsoft and their spyware OS.
DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Windows home and pro editions are now just billboards. Like literal billboards. I don’t know how people put up with this much garbage in their system. Microsoft is actively working against their users. Whatever users say they don’t like, Microsoft triples down on.
hcf@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
They’re not acting against their users, it’s just that non-enterprise consumers are a complete afterthought. I.e. less of a “fuck you” to individual consumers and more of a “who the fuck do you think you are?”.
Why market or design an OS for individual consumers when the majority of your revenue is going to come from volume licensing by manufacturers that are fulfilling bulk purchases from corporate America/higher-ed?
Sunshine@piefed.social 15 hours ago
!linux@programming.dev is right there!
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
There are very few sellers that have pre-installed Linux laptops which is what majority of people buy. So they are automatically disacarded as an option.
mintiefresh@piefed.ca 14 hours ago
This is the way!
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 15 hours ago
People are dumb, as I always suspected.
hcf@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
In what way does this imply stupidity?
tahoe@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Because you’re on Lemmy, anything that isn’t Linux is bad
Moidialectica@hexbear.net 15 hours ago
People are perfectly rational, I have recommended MacBooks over windows because they’re simply better when windows is failing so hard and Linux doesn’t provide what they need.
This is changing with winboat on Linux, and a lot of people just use this as an opportunity to complain rather than actually fix their problems. Feels like a lot of people would still pick windows over macOS, even if it was free and libre, just cause it is apple, and it ‘games bad’ despite the advancements in wine allowing it to game even better than most gaming laptops
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
There’s really no good reason to buy a new laptop that isn’t a MacBook. If you’re gaming on a laptop you have no real good options. None of them are real portable laptops, they’re desktop replacements and they’re just worse than a desktop in every way and cost more. Unless you’re streaming (e.g. GeForce Now) and then you can do that on a MacBook. I don’t think Macs lead laptops in affordability, but the value is there — they last for years, and they last a long time on a charge. And hey, I can run Cyberpunk on mine, so that’s neat.
For a desktop, it’s a bit dicier. It’s hard to argue with the M4 Mac mini at $500, with 16GB RAM, but I think you can do a little better with miniature PCs. I don’t think $500 of PC beats the M4 Mac mini though, I’m just saying you can get one cheaper. Like there are mini PCs on Amazon for like $200-300 that look decent for most of what the Mac mini does. They do tend to come with Windows, but you can easily put Linux on it and then I can’t say anything about Windows and its bullshit.
Honestly, if you’re not a gamer, consider a Mac. It’s nice over here. Just go to an Apple Store and play with one. They’ll let you. Best Buy has them too. And if someone does come up, don’t worry, they aren’t pushy, I don’t think they get commissions, or at least they don’t act like they do. Feel free to tell them what you want out of a computer. See what they have to offer. I just think it’s a cleaner OS, and as someone who has 30+ years of Windows experience, I’ve been a Mac user a little over 2 years, and I took right to it, and I love it. It really is joyous to use. But they’re more for creative types, and not really for gamers.
StitchInTime@piefed.social 13 hours ago
To this day I still don’t understand the appeal of gaming laptops outside of maybe college kids. Phenomenal calculation power, itty-bitty airflow space.
superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
I have one I take on business trips and it let’s me still play video games with my friends on weekdays, its fantastic.
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
This is a limitation of YOUR brain. The rest of us can and do use them for legit purposes.
Carl@hexbear.net 9 hours ago
[gaming laptops]'re desktop replacements and they’re just worse than a desktop in every way and cost more
Learned this the hard way when I was nineteen. Had a fat ass Alienware, top of the line everything, played Crysis, lasted about one day past the warranty and promptly died.
About four years ago I bought a laptop for work, an old Thinkpad. It was used when I got it and it’s still kicking. Runs a web browser just fine (and stuff like PuTTy and Teams) and can hang with indie games.
The only reason I would consider buying a laptop that’s more than a web browser/video streaming machine now is if I really needed to be able to use it as a tablet for art and stuff.
miguel@fedia.io 13 hours ago
I cooked (literally) 3 'gaming' laptops in 5 years. It seems that even with a riser and constant (monthly) cleaning, heavy GPU use pretty much kills the later gen nvidia chips.
BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 14 hours ago
I wish there was an OEM that sells the same build quality/QA/QC as Apple.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
I only know of system76.com but have no personal experience with any of them.
miguel@fedia.io 13 hours ago
I do. They're garbage cleo laptops with a badge and no support. I had one, when it failed they refused to stand behind it at all.
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 12 hours ago
Apple PC
So many Apple users’ eyes just twitched
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
Lol copilot
miguel@fedia.io 13 hours ago
Makes sense, I did. Granted, mine was an old model for $40 that I have now upgraded to 16GB of RAM, but yes. Good plan.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
You mean having an AI watch everything you do isn’t a good selling point?
hcf@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
I don’t think it’s AI aversion. The problem is that Windows 11 guts the muscle memory that older consumers have built up from using prior generations of Microsoft Windows.
If a company is going to dick my over by suddenly changing/hiding/abstracting-away parts of their OS that I used to (an am used to) use on a daily basis, then I’d rather relearn a new OS from a company that doesn’t have the track record of totally redoing their entire OS in the course of a single OS generation.
If I also have a little bit more disposable income and am anticipating a poor economic downturn, I’m going with the device that I can go to a physical brick-and-mortar place and have it serviced as opposed to the crap shoot that is any other Windows-licensed manufacturer’s device.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 hours ago
What on earth are you talking about? lol