> This + keeping the old stuff around is what makes Windows more fitting than macOS in a professional environment
Of course, particularly in professional industries like engineering that rely on expensive and complex Windows-only software, running old games etc.. I don't claim it's not worthwhile, but it's also a lot of baggage weighing it down. I'd be fine with running it for that purpose, since my job would not be to have opinions on my operating system necessarily. Having been in a supporting role for general office Windows pcs recently, I did find its stack of even first-party quirks very frustrating to deal with, even though I use it regularly for gaming. IIRC I even had to dip into the registry editor to fix some value that was left unset by the imperfect configuration of the bizarre Outlook profile system.
Most of the time I just install the game I want, run the game, shut it down, leave it at that, and rarely run updates. Relying on it for anything more complex would drive me crazy.
Macos could be better in some ways, the Settings app lately is miserable and the mouse tracking controls suck, SwiftUI has performance/documentation issues and should be open source, but it's reliable and the UI is pretty consistent, and while I'm sure there are some deeper quirks once you dig deeper, I'd really have to be looking for them.
Haven't tried Gnome in a while, it's always seemed fine enough, don't have much to say about it atm
Of course, particularly in professional industries like engineering that rely on expensive and complex Windows-only software, running old games etc.. I don't claim it's not worthwhile, but it's also a lot of baggage weighing it down. I'd be fine with running it for that purpose, since my job would not be to have opinions on my operating system necessarily. Having been in a supporting role for general office Windows pcs recently, I did find its stack of even first-party quirks very frustrating to deal with, even though I use it regularly for gaming. IIRC I even had to dip into the registry editor to fix some value that was left unset by the imperfect configuration of the bizarre Outlook profile system.
Most of the time I just install the game I want, run the game, shut it down, leave it at that, and rarely run updates. Relying on it for anything more complex would drive me crazy.
Macos could be better in some ways, the Settings app lately is miserable and the mouse tracking controls suck, SwiftUI has performance/documentation issues and should be open source, but it's reliable and the UI is pretty consistent, and while I'm sure there are some deeper quirks once you dig deeper, I'd really have to be looking for them.
Haven't tried Gnome in a while, it's always seemed fine enough, don't have much to say about it atm