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After 2 years of MacOS, I tried Windows again
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@77dris 9 ай бұрын
Anybody else think Lee made this video as an alibi to explain the sticky keyboard to his wife?
@TomasRamoska 9 ай бұрын
Probably, but she is the one to blame she is supposed to keep his 🥜 empty 🤣
@jvatos 8 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@rexmaximilian9548 7 ай бұрын
OMG I am literally LOLing!
@felixbrandau4751 7 ай бұрын
😂😂
@jonnham 6 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@FkedupUzzu 9 ай бұрын
Using windows for 10+ years and not knowing what OneDrive is wild
@ganthc 9 ай бұрын
Yeah, I think he made that up for content. OneDrive has been out longer than two years he’s been on Mac.
@adeeshajayanath 7 ай бұрын
and he think it is necessary to buy subscription.
@daillengineer 6 ай бұрын
I work with MBA's that have no idea what one drive is or how to use it for collaboration. these people use thumb drives lol.
@danielwick6088 6 ай бұрын
@@daillengineerwe got icloud so thats not the issue why we use thumb drives, we use em because our ssd‘s starts at 256gb 😂
@fladoss 6 ай бұрын
i always used apps like Win10 Tweaker and like this to get rid off all stupid stuff, turn off telemetry, ad things, including onedrive, I didn't know what it was and I never wanted to know after all, but every time I reinstalled my windows (by the way its been 2 years now since I've bought MacBook and never reinstalled the OS since then) this stinky app was always downloading along with the system... also, why do I even need to delete this system apps that can't be installed without using some 3rd party apps or using PowerShell risking to make some shit and never boot up again? i want to buy a laptop and get everything done, working and not asking me to subscribe, buy or even use for free some system app?
@DanBlondell 7 ай бұрын
“That’s just Windows now.” Nope, that’s been Windows for 20 years, now you can see it.
@tenthant 6 ай бұрын
I feel that's a bit overboard, Windows 7 definitely wasn't this bad lol (and that came out 15 years ago).
@DanBlondell 6 ай бұрын
Can’t speak to windows 7. Windows XP had bloatware
@hajjdawood 6 ай бұрын
@@tenthant Windows 7 eventually bogs down like every other version of Windows the longer you use it the slower it gets.
@0w3nn 6 ай бұрын
@@hajjdawoodNot really true, unless you have an HDD but ok.
@hajjdawood 6 ай бұрын
@@0w3nn Of course it is and the fact that you used a clarifier in your statement "Not *REALLY* true" indicates that you would agree to a degree that what I am saying is true.
@Samtagri 9 ай бұрын
To remove stickiness from old fake rubber products, use the CIF bathroom cleaner. It is the only cleaning product I tried that completely removes all the stickiness and leaves you with actually nice to use feel. It is bizarre that many high end electronics still use these kinds of materials.
@ThorDyrden 9 ай бұрын
talcum powder somewhat works for me, if the plastic is not degraded too much.
@SToXC_. 9 ай бұрын
iirc this fake rubbery smooth paint coating on electronics was popular all over the place years ago, cause, WHEN NEW, it feels and looks good, but it melts and becomes a sticky pile of shit after a while as far as i know, there isn't anything anymore that's still using this material for a while now
@Samtagri 9 ай бұрын
@@SToXC_. doesn’t seem the laptop Lee is talking about is that old. Also I had a Zoom H5 and a Wacom Cintique, both kind of high end products from around 2016 and they both became a gooey mess after a few years of very light use. But CIF fixed them both. Now they have a nice smooth finish. Not as luxurious as how they originally were. But very presentable.
@Samtagri 9 ай бұрын
The CIF cream. Not the sprays.
@stew_redman 9 ай бұрын
With Windows PC's I build my own. With Laptops, I reformat them and do a fresh install of Windows with minimum telemetry. No bloatware or any other crap. I'm an Engineer. I've worked for multiple multi-national corporations. Every industry I've worked in, from trains, oil rigs, ships, medical and now laboratory equipment has always needed Windows. Mac OS is too locked down and hard to customise for a lot of companies. Setting up a Windows PC can be a pain if you're not used to it, but it's not difficult to switch off all the background crap and advertising. It's only a constant problem if you let it be that way.
@desohare8683 9 ай бұрын
Completely agree, and you don't have to be an IT specialist to get Windows working very nicely. I am agnostic. I have 2 windows desktops, one high-ish spec AMD and a 6 year old Intel. Both working well and the AMD very comfortable with 4K video editing. But. I also have an M1 macbook pro and an M2 pro Mac Mini for my professional video work. The Macbook is great. Fast with brilliant battery life. A great purchase. However, Im sorry, I hate the operating system, its archaic file navigation, lack of customisation, weird ways of doing something as simple as formatting a drive. Open a picture, and can you just hit an arrow key to go through the folder? No. etc, etc. It looks and feels like its from the 80`s, but faster. By the way, how can you have used windows exclusively till 2 years ago and not know what Onedrive is? Its part of windows and gives really easy cloud access on computers and mobiles, including my Apple machines, and it doesnt cost anything unless you want Terrabytes of storage.
@AnotherDay-ce6th 2 ай бұрын
Exactly. These apple brian less users don't know anything more than photo and video editing lol
@techtipsuk 2 ай бұрын
Yeah but you shouldn’t have to be an IT engineer who’s worked in multiple sectors just to be to use a laptop. It’s a disgrace you get all of this garbage with a clean install. Windows has always been the same, shit on top of shit.
@arunashamal 26 күн бұрын
You don't need to be an engineer to setup MacOS without bloatware... lol...click yes, yes, I agree and sign into icloud, and all your stuff from iphone, watch, ipad etc... will be there... I can't beieve there are windows apologists in 2024!
@MegaEllie78 3 күн бұрын
Thank you so much for this insight. As I was debating whether to get a Mac or Windows.
@CrawfordHeisz 9 ай бұрын
Wife doesn’t get her own Mac? “Here’s the sticky laptop I taped up.” 😂
@lior38 7 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@davidpurple3698 6 ай бұрын
Give her a Mac
@cassiuscartland 6 ай бұрын
either he dosent care about his wife or is poor
@ArthropodSpidey 6 ай бұрын
I don't think having a Mac in the first place means he's poor. What a stupid comment.@@cassiuscartland
@dom0_2007 6 ай бұрын
@@cassiuscartland it seems she doesn't care
@skipper63400 9 ай бұрын
This says more about DELL than Windows. I have switched on my Old Vaio SVZ after 6-7 years, still on Windows 7 and worked like a charm
@ganthc 9 ай бұрын
Sony Vaios are premium laptops. I still have two and they work awesomely. My first one is from 2006, and is now running Linux Mint because Windows 7 is out of service. My other Vaio will likely join it on Linux when Windows 10 ends. Both laptops have premium builds, and are usable to this day. But MacBooks are fantastic with their build quality.
@ryanw8664 9 ай бұрын
The sticky laptop part is on Dell, yes. But the update issues, unwanted product placement, and random things breaking is very much a universal Windows experience. Coming from someone who has multiple PC brands at my office. If you like troubleshooting, then Windows FTW.
@skipper63400 9 ай бұрын
@@ryanw8664 I am convinced Mac/Apple users are much more tolerant and do not complain that much. I cannot believe for instance that they put up all those years with the butterfly keyboard and all these horrible Mac keyboards, or they accept to donate a kidney to get some more SSD capacity when they buy their laptops. This is why also the iCloud is so easily sold to them vs Onedrive. They also they have the benefit of a closed system. In Windows very often the multitude of apps can create problems, but most of what he was showing (ads, search bar, widgets) are nowhere to be found on my windows laptops.
@ThomasVanhelden 8 ай бұрын
When I see people complaining about issues they have with other OEMs, there's always people telling them to "buy a better laptop, like the Dell XPS" It never ends. Windows Fanboys keep blaming it on the OEMs, but every single Windows OEM has issues like this that Macs simply don't have. Even though the Dell XPS was almost unanimously called the best Windows laptop, it was riddled with issues from the start. I don't know a single person that ever bought a Dell XPS without experiencing any issues.
@skipper63400 8 ай бұрын
@ThomasVanhelden Sorry but Dell XPS is far from the best. Best line of Thinkpads, Elitebooks and lastly Dell Precisions are much better. But most people compare relatively cheaper consumer grade laptops to Macs. And Apple fanboys never complain, even if they had the worst keyboards for years in their Macbooks.
@HwL01 9 ай бұрын
I am Mac user but I think maybe you should use a current laptop to make it a fairer experience.
@ryutx3717 8 ай бұрын
this is not a mac vs windows battle, its his opinion about returning to windows after two years...
@paulywalnutz5855 8 ай бұрын
nothing to do with pc its the OS
@at_oussama 7 ай бұрын
Did you just watch the first half of the video talking about hardware, because most of his talk was about the bad Windows OS experience
@evindrews 7 ай бұрын
Not really. I mean, I sold my macbook pro 2017 early last year and it didn't have these issues and that's the point. The fact that a 2 year old laptop is already physically degrading to this point is crazy.
@TheFourthWinchester 6 ай бұрын
@@evindrews apple fanbois don't even feed anything to their brains. It's not 2 years old laptop.
@Mishk 9 ай бұрын
The way he was describing the issues he had on Windows literally made me laugh out loud. It was comedy.
@jeanbaptistelabelle 9 ай бұрын
Me too. This is such an horrible experience from Dell. Why on earth not buy simply a Surface? After, why Windows 10 in 2023? And really? He does not know what is OneDrive???
@ReclusiveEagle 9 ай бұрын
You realize Windows 11 has less than a 25% adoption rate right? I have Windows 11 but blind fanboy defending Microsoft because you hate Apple is a joke. Next year Microsoft may release Windows 12. Why? Because Windows 11 is Windows 10, and they want to build 12 on the back of Co-Pilot and actually new systems. Regardless there was no need to restart 40 times. He could also just uninstall One drive or mute notifications and he would never have had any of these problems. The real major difference is Microsoft's obsession with Ads. Mac OS is the best experience for creators but if you do more than that, for legacy applications or gaming you need Windows. @@jeanbaptistelabelle
@Mishk 9 ай бұрын
@@jeanbaptistelabelle yeah idk. I think Apple has done a better job at Microsoft at building machines that end to end function better. Of course there is personal opinion and such. It’s a hotly debated thing. But Microsoft has done a better job at making money off of computers (ignoring the mobile phone world). So hey, maybe Microsoft is the smarter player!
@jeanbaptistelabelle 9 ай бұрын
@@Mishk Apple is definitely making more money on their hardware. À Mac does not support touch, does not morph in a tablet, does not support pen... And an iPad lacks a lot of software / app and has a super limiting OS and peripheral support. For me, arguably, Microsoft built with the Surface a MUCH better functioning machine end to end. So it seems it is clearly a matter of opinion. Honestly, an iPad alone or a Mac alone are super limiting. And even if carrying both everywhere, which is terrible, it still does not do all what a Surface can do (drawing a mask with the pen with Capture One Pro using the Surface as a tablet in the plane with limited space... Thousand of similar examples where you need the combination of hardware and software).
@Mishk 9 ай бұрын
@@jeanbaptistelabelle I grew up in a MSFT household and I was die hard. As time went on all the companies I joined used only Mac (software engineering). So I converted. Honestly I feel like I’m limited when I go to windows interestingly. My frank take is, who cares, use whatever you like. The debates on what’s better are overblown. What’s better is what you like! And I think we get used to our setup and then it becomes hard to switch.
@cassiuscartland 6 ай бұрын
3:27 the reason the computer may not have booted after a while is if the CMOS battery had ran out-it keeps track of the time and some BIOS settings so if your computer ever runs out you won't need to configure the time again. However, the CMOS battery, like all other batteries, runs out after a while.
@yincognito 6 ай бұрын
I was going to say the same thing. He's obviously not that good with computers, despite his occasional claims, otherwise he would have known that. Even in his Mac switching videos earlier he was in awe that their system booted up when opening the lid, when that can easily be set up from BIOS or the Power Settings on a PC or Windows laptop too.
@siklalkis 6 ай бұрын
@@yincognito Precisely. I don't get how people do videos like this without previously checking their claims on google. Plus, he is mixing hardware and software complaints just to conclude that windows sucks.
@yincognito 6 ай бұрын
@@siklalkis Well, to be fair, he mixed things to reach a similar conclusion in his Mac videos too. At least he admits he might not know how to do this or that like a regular user would, but yeah, folks nowadays are more interested in making their opinion known than in being accurate, especially if the views get monetized...
@nihilisticprophet6985 Күн бұрын
How come it doesn’t happen with my Mac tho. I didn’t use my old MacBook for 3 years and I charge it up and everything is there even the old safari tabs I had opened 3 years ago
@JaredHoyman 9 ай бұрын
😂 I laughed throughout this entire video because I can relate. I told my wife for yrs Mac is a ripoff. I bought the MacBook Pro max m2 in March and ended up selling my editing pc a month later. I’ll never go back. I ended up buying my wife a MacBook Air and I never have seen her use a computer as much as I have now. It just works.
@simply6162 9 ай бұрын
why do u think after doing all that u dont deserve an huge slap to ur face ?
@tomhunt5152 9 ай бұрын
to be fair, macs did use to be a massive ripoff back in the intel days, but since they switched to ARM, they have just easily become the best laptops on the market for 99% of people.
@tonyhawk123 9 ай бұрын
@@tomhunt5152I disagree. Macs were better value even in the Intel days. I spent more money on a Vaio but got more use out of a Macbook Pro, which incidentally still looks modern even today.
@danielreel130 9 ай бұрын
While I do agree that it just works, and see the multiple benefits of Apple and competitive advantage over Windows. I don't see "It is a great/better (depending on one's perspective) product" and "It's a rip off" as mutually exclusive statements in Apple's case.
@parkame1 8 ай бұрын
@@tonyhawk123lol not even close. And why compare it with the worst possible option? Sony has always been just as much a ripoff.
@TheOfficialOriginalChad 8 ай бұрын
Whether it’s macOS vs Windows or iOS vs Android, the most valid argument is “it just works” When I was a kid I loved going through every setting, using utilities to make things the way I want them, etc, so I get it…but that’s when computers were toys to me. Now they’re tools.
@Teluric2 6 ай бұрын
It just works its a myth I can find in 5 sec many post of mac users that need help The mac user is one of the most likely to tell lies.
@TheOfficialOriginalChad 6 ай бұрын
@@Teluric2 It’s been a little while since I worked in the support side of IT, but my combined experience is in the hundreds of thousands. These users have been about a 50/50 split. At scales like this, 10% fewer tickets saves millions of dollars. Both I and financial analysts run these numbers. So I’m curious where you’re getting your data…
@armen_kocharyan 6 ай бұрын
Now let's remember that there are much less Mac users than Windows users
@TheOfficialOriginalChad 6 ай бұрын
@@armen_kocharyan Worldwide, yes, but in professional environments it’s often closer to 50/50. It leans more heavily towards Mac depending on how many engineers, developers, and creatives are employed at an organization.
@vonPeter_ 6 ай бұрын
I love MacOS but the "it just works" slogan is only the half of the story. Just try to plug a third party mouse or keyboard and you'll know. Apple knows how to annoy you when you trying to step out the line and not pay a cent for their overpriced, ergonomically nightmare piece of garbage peripherals.
@subutayk 9 ай бұрын
Wow man, 2 years passed? Hard to believe. When I was watching the first and the second Mac videos of yours, I was literally thinking about today while laughing your situation because I was having more or less the same complaints abound 10 years ago. Today I was laughing one more time because I was suffering for my wife, exactly the same about 2 years ago. Eventually I gave her my previous Mac and now no Microsoft products in our house (except company PCs). Big congratulations that you've acknowledged us without being an Apple Fan. This is a fine balance ;)
@juansanchezdominguez7885 6 ай бұрын
I crossed the bridge from being an HATER to a evangelist
@Category5 9 ай бұрын
This happened to me. I needed a laptop for my digital mixer for live gigs, and my wife insisted it needed to be a mac. So much so that she bought me one. I connected the mixer, and audio was working flawlessly in about 3 seconds. Literally! On a windows machine there are hours of installs, tweaks, and patches needed to make things work, and even then. Then came photography. Once I saw how color management was universal from app to app, and from screen to printer I was done with windows. I could not beleive how my prints matched my screen EVERY time. I thought it was magic. I never did get Windows color management to work well. I always had to toggle things on and off, and reload profiles. Even then, I'd view something on the desktop with completely different colors than photoshop, even though the settings were set the same. I still have 2 machines, but windows might as well be an xbox. It's a beast for playing games. Anything that needs to get done gets done on the mac, and I haven't even experienced Apple Silicon yet.
@simply6162 9 ай бұрын
Once you try Apple silicon you might even dump your Xbox thinking how u stupid u were all these years
@Lofote 9 ай бұрын
The digital mixer problem sounds like a problem the manufacturer made not implementing it right under Windows. Thats not where Windows is to blame ;)...
@Category5 9 ай бұрын
Oh no. That wasn’t my first rodeo. It was a FireWire mixer I wanted to run on a laptop in 2009. There were literally a handful that could do it reliably in real time, on stage. Went the same for the three desktop interface before that. Windows doesn’t have direct control of its hardware. It has to do it through driver layers. That introduces latency and the chance for hiccups. Mac OS doesn’t even use drivers. Core audio just gives the device priority and you fly. You can even use multiple, unlike audio interfaces at the same time. That’s almost magic coming from years of windows tweaks and special installs.
@FStoppers 9 ай бұрын
I feel you on the screen calibration. I’m not a mac user at all but calibrating a screen on PC has been so difficult and convoluted that I just vowed to never do it again. -P
@Lofote 9 ай бұрын
@@FStoppersCan you elaborate where it is different? I always used X-Rite, start calibration tool, finished... and on a friends macbook the same. I don't see why this is any different?
@Bartskol 9 ай бұрын
Has it really been two years already? Damn! I remember watching you do that comparison with Mac, but was it really two years ago?
@piotrbaranowski1 9 ай бұрын
same here 🤯
@JimWattsHereNow 9 ай бұрын
Great video, exactly the same experience, Windows user and pc support person for 30+ years. A real pc fan boy. Switched to Mac just over a year ago due to software we develop on, and crap not ever going back to windows. I get the Apple ecosystem now and things just work.
@Vachalen 9 ай бұрын
It's simple. Apple has a draconian grip on the hardware that goes into the apple ecosystem. It works because it doesn't have to deal with 354543 54736254 different configurations that Windows have to deal with. As a Windows and PC support person for 30+ years, like you claim, you sure as hell ain't behaving like one.
@D0x1511af 9 ай бұрын
owhh being mac and windows user...the claim seem half baked...even a linux user said macOS still mono tasking if compare to linux and windows that has better shortcut
@apo.7898 8 ай бұрын
What doesn't just work on Windows 11?
@leoklaus 7 ай бұрын
@@apo.7898Its not about what doesn’t „just work“ on Windows, it’s more about the general experience. Windows sucks hard in many areas, especially the update experience is terrible. It won’t remember what windows were open when rebooting, updates are frequent and can take a really long time. Windows comes with an obnoxious amount of stupid bloatware. Many things just don’t work at all. HDR support in Windows STILL sucks. You often have to install dependencies manually when installing software. Menus are just changed or replaced with new menus that lack critical functionality.
@apo.7898 7 ай бұрын
@@leoklaus Update experience on Windows 11 is good. On 10 it wasn't good.
@R1pTheJacka 6 ай бұрын
As a music producer, it blows my mind when I constantly see people on Reddit recommend Windows because "the specs are just as good if not better." Then they find out they have to install a separate audio driver, adjust settings for latency, move config files from one folder to another for better performance or something...switching to Mac might have added years back to my life in the form of saving time and reducing stress lol
@AnotherDay-ce6th 2 ай бұрын
That's called work environment independency. There are several oems so the machine also has to configure differently. Other than US based users, majority people use Windows even for music and video production. And there are engineers, even Apple workhouse use windows for using pro engineering tools
@synthoelectro Ай бұрын
I'm about to achieve this victory tomorrow, as for the first time in my entire life I'll own a mac, and I've been using windows since 1995. I started struggling with windows about win10, and every version of windows 10 has been a dud. I'm ready to leave, my music inspiration suffers due to it.. MS has become a shell of itself back in XP days.
@AlliandWill 9 ай бұрын
Your annoyance at Windows was hilariously entertaining haha 🤣
@heinerjost2154 9 ай бұрын
😡 Am I the only one who can not relate? The built quality is not related to the OS. I agree that Apple has a good build quality. However I am using Thinkpad T Series and HP Elitebooks for 15 years no and had no issues with the material. Especially the older models allow to upgrade and replace parts which is a big advantage for me. Installing updates on Windows really is no fun, but to be fair - Installing an old OS on a Mac will also force you to install updates. I make sure to download the latest Windows ISOs and it never takes me more than 30 min to format and install. Less then 10 min if I restore a backup. My company gave me a Macbook Pro with Core I9, 32GB Ram and 1TB SSD. I really hated this one. It was heavy, loud, and the battery was always empty. Working in a Windows domain was no fun. Apple Photo somehow looks like a joke to me. When I upload JPG and RAW at the same time it is one item and I need to export to get to the RAW, but if I import the JPG first and ten the RAW file, I cannot join it? However I would never say that all Macs are crappy. Funny that you mention that Microsoft wants you to pay for Onedrive. Thank God Apple provides their services and tools for free. There are different operating systems and different notebook models that fit different requirements. Recently I got a refurbished T470s for 200$, upgraded to 20GB Ram and installed Linux. I really like having network and USB A ports without using adapters, but obviously it is not brilliant for photo or video editing. However I still like your videos on Photography. Sounds like you know what you are talking about.
@avySeal 9 ай бұрын
I remember watching your first video of the ‘first time you started using MacOS’. Two years later, sounds like you’re loving MacOS. I’m a MacOS users but I have to constantly update my parents Windows & Android devices. I feel your pain. Haha. Great video, thanks.
@ReginaldVandeVelde 9 ай бұрын
This! My dad is on Android I am literally helping him out every single week with updates & mishaps, to the point I'm now thinking of buying him a refurbished iPhone! I bet a lot of us share the same frustration.
@theKIB 9 ай бұрын
I can only partially relate to this. Yes, I get every other day a call about Windows issues: "Why is Edge opening my PDFs?" etc... and also Android used to be an issue. However, since my parents moved to Google Pixel, with literally no bloat preinstalled, my life got much easier, without teaching them iOS.
@clickbaitpro 8 ай бұрын
@@ReginaldVandeVelde You sounds like you never updates your iphone. You've to do the same even if your parents have iphone
@vivek_v 7 ай бұрын
@@ReginaldVandeVelde You seriously can't click the button that says "update"? Maybe once you use an iPhone, you will realize how annoying it is to deal with their stupid update pop-ups... especially when iOS 16 and 17 are buggy messes from my experience. Keeping my iPhone SE 2 on iOS 15 is an absolute nightmare, though it's better than ruining it with iOS 16 (which is what happened to my iPhone 8).
@vivek_v 7 ай бұрын
@@theKIB "Why is Edge opening my PDFs?" Is that supposed to be bad? TBH, I would rather have that than opening it in a separate PDF viewer window.
@JaysonBumbalough 9 ай бұрын
I used to repair computers in a little repair shop. We did a lot of format and reinstalls due to systems being toasted by malware. People were so confused why they couldn't get their systems back same day. Sometimes it was due to customers in front of them in our workflow but most of the time it was because it took 4 hours to format and reinstall and properly download and update all the updates from windows. this was 2008 so we dealt with a lot of Windows XP and earlier OS's
@vivek_v 7 ай бұрын
And...? A fresh install of MacOS also takes hours, partly because of how complicated it is to make a bootable USB compared to Windows.
@badongtagalog5737 6 ай бұрын
@@vivek_vyou dont need install new macos because it doesnt suck like windows. If you you do install you can install it via network and you are done. In windows you have to find those stupid license numbers and scrambling to reinstall back softwares and find the stupid license numbers😂
@arunashamal 26 күн бұрын
@@vivek_v it is not complicated, as if you are a new user, it will automaticalled download macos from the internet, it takes time depending on the internet connection, and if you are someone who needs to make a bootable usb, like me I used to repair computers, it is literally one or two terminal commands and it will create the usb for you... it has never been a convoluted process like windows.
@eremdgrl 7 ай бұрын
your cmos battery might have run out or is faulty causing the bios fiddling for first boot
@dean6125 6 ай бұрын
yeh sounds like bios config corruption 👍
@dalelangehennig161 7 ай бұрын
Got a great laugh out of the "weird cranberry icon" and the "cranberry harvest". 😂🤣😂. I am at my work apartment by myself this morning. Glad I was not home. I was laughing so loud I would have awakened my wife. LOL!!!
@ljuglampa 9 ай бұрын
These videos don't have much to do with Fstoppers or photography but by now those are my favourites. I just love to see Lee get really dramatic and upset about annoying stuff :D
@dillydadally 5 ай бұрын
I feel like there were only two arguments here - the constant updates on a new PC and all the ad junk. Anyone with a tiny bit of computer knowledge can get rid of any of this stuff in 5 minutes and I think half the ads were Dell junk. So basically all the complaints were things that are only felt when reinstalling Windows and then after the first day there's no more problems. Sure, that's annoying, but not a good reason to say the experience of using the OS generally is better or worse than another.
@compguild 8 ай бұрын
I went Mac a few years ago, after years of building my own PC’s. I think I’ve literally saved myself years of messing about. Mac just works, almost everything is seamless and integrated, no viruses and nasty crashes etc. I got my life back. The whole ecosystem (phone, iPad, watch etc.) just intergrate….. apps are well written and stable. But, also the hardware is solid and beautiful to look at, it lasts for years and has re-sell value. I’d never go back.
@pault8630 6 ай бұрын
Happy for You. For example for me using the Apple ecosystem was one of the worst experiences ever. For example I bought first the Ipad. I connected him to my Windows Laptop and surprise. Ipad can't be seen as a regular hard drive. You had to install iTunes and from them give the permissions to some apps on the Ipad to be able to put anything on the Ipad drive. Why? Probably only to make people angry. I will stay with Windows. As I did for 25 years. Trying Apple products was a big mistake for me. You got everything You need in Windows laptop and for like half a price.
@szymonlipinski2974 6 ай бұрын
@@pault8630so you didn’t try apple ecosystem, but tried integrating windows with ios/ipados. I get that it sucks but literally the whole point of ecosystem is using at least two devices (in this case two apple devices)
@Hunter_Bidens_Crackpipe_ 6 ай бұрын
"no nasty crashes" when in the last video he showed a bunch of them. Enough of the kool aid 😂😂
@compguild 5 ай бұрын
@@pault8630 do you know what 'Mac Ecosystem' means my friend ?....last time I looked a Windows Laptop wasn't part of it. .
@pault8630 5 ай бұрын
@@compguild I know exactly what that means. When I said that I connected it to Windows laptop this does not mean that I did had macbook as well. But using macbook, ipad and iphone on daily basis made me annoyed. I was keep asking myself a question "Why this things cannot just work?" That is why I returned to Windows laptop. Which is working completely fine btw. All usb sticks working with no problems. Same android tablet. You have a usb stick formatted in NTFS? Macbook will not accept it fully. That is why I had constant headache with this "apple ecosystem". That is why I returned with relieve to Windows and android. I just came out with the idea that I do not have time for everyday fight with my system. If that suits others...well good for them. Just this things are not for me. Not for that price either.
@Fran-or3lt 9 ай бұрын
I would say its user error. Ive had Dell XPS laptops for close to 8 years (13,15. and 17).None of these issues, i uninstalled all Dell bloatware and have no popups..at all. Have a XPS 13 9360 specced out and havnt used it for 2 years, boots no issues, no sticky or melted palm rests, hell even opened it up, repasted it and put a new battery in. Works like a charm. There is a dark art to windows computers, Macs are made to be simple as thats how the underlying OS program was first written. Ps, i also run a M2 Macbook air, and Ipad pro in side car plus iphone 15pro max. I knows apple products inside out.
@rudolfvanderven 9 ай бұрын
Haha so relatable. First computer was a PC so grew up on DOS, Windows 95, 98 and XP. When I started studying graphic design in 2006, the classes all used iMacs and I absolutely hated them. Nothing made sense, I didn't get how the windows worked AT ALL and it was all so different. Two years later, I bought my first Macbook Pro and haven't looked back since.
@JJPDESIGNS 9 ай бұрын
Sticky plastic on your Dell laptop? Microsoft's fault? Um, Ok ... I can only speak from my own experience having a 12 year old Windows laptop that I use twice a year and it is running Windows 11 - no problems - and still fast. My desktop - windows 11 - no issues. My only observation - I don't use Dell specifically because of the mysterious types of problems you encountered on your Dell. Note - I also have a Mac - and it runs fine... but I always prefer the Windows system for most tasks. Some people like Pasta - Some people like rice - Some people like both. Sometimes you get a bad bowl of pasta and sometimes you get a bad bowl of rice... doesn't make declare whichever as eternally bad - just one bad experience... llke you loved Windows for years and suddenly have one bad experience with a computer you fire up after a year of non-use and suddenly "everything about it sucks."
@longingbydesign 9 ай бұрын
How did you even get Windows 11 with its crazy system requirements to install on a 12 yo machine? Can't even install it on a 4 year old machine.
@jeffersondsouza7887 9 ай бұрын
Your particular laptop seems to have bad drivers. I've always had issues with Mac OS taking 2 hours for a security update when it tells me it will take 30 mins, while Widows takes a few minutes now for each update. Most of the people commenting here have switched over to one platform and then find the old one bad, I use both Mac OS and Windows devices daily for the same tasks, video and graphic design, overall, windows has less annoying popups compared to mac os, provided you opt out of all the tracking and advertising stuff while setting up Windows for the first time, and your laptop costs at least 1000 USD so its not loaded with adware from the manufacturer
@laez 8 ай бұрын
Agreed
@youknowwho9247 9 ай бұрын
Feels a bit overdramatic. Yes, setting up a Windows system from scratch takes a while. After that though, it just works. Every problem you're describing apart from the restarting issue is due to lack of proper setup. You can turn OneDrive notifications off, you can turn the newsfeed off, you can change the start menu to not show you any ads - or tiles, for that matter. Default windows is a pain, that's fair. However, the whole point of a Windows system over macOS is that everything about it is virtually 100% customisable, so you can set up your system to look and work exactly the way you want.
@youknowwho9247 8 ай бұрын
@@nazmulfahad3044 They should be default. However, MacOS should also be much more flexible and customizable. Both solutions have their pros and cons. If you want a system that just works straight out of the box and you don't need a lot of flexibility, go Mac. Personally, I don't mind some setup, I know what I'm doing, and I want my system to do what I want rather than what the manufacturer deems ideal, so I'm on Windows.
@hajjdawood 7 ай бұрын
@@youknowwho9247 What a dumb response. macOS is more flexible and customizable especially given its Unix subsystem. You are acting like anyone wants or needs ads filled in their system. Its not an option on macOS just like how mcdonalds doesnt give you the option to add dirty syinges to your food.
@youknowwho9247 7 ай бұрын
@@hajjdawood That's just nonsense. MacOS is UNIX based, but it's a closed version of UNIX that's set in stone. My windows has zero ads and it's customized to look the way I want. Can't do that on MacOS. That's just a fact.
@0000kris0000 9 ай бұрын
About 10 years ago Fstoppers was one of the best photography channels that helped me learn photography with loads of photography videos. I love that now it’s just a platform for Lee to just moan about technology 🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻
@ThorDyrden 9 ай бұрын
This update description sounds like you used the years old Windows-Installation media, instead of getting the latest variant, which will already include most of the updates you now needed to install one by one (downloadable from MS). I would expect your experience would have been similar, when reinstalling your MacBook with some "High Sierra" install-media, which first needs to update itselfs to the latest macOS. The reboots on Windows are pretty much down to a minimum for me - not even the last yearly-update to 23H2 needed a reboot. Also have an XPS - luckily not sticky yet... but I know this effect from other "soft-plastic" surfaces... once you don't touch them for months - they suddenly start "bleeding out"... guess it has something to do with skin-oil keeping them fresh, but without it they start drying out and bleed out their softeners. If that's the case not the best choice from dell imho. But that is an XPS problem - not a Apple-solution or even Windows issue. My way older Asus notebook is full aluminum and looks great - the Lenovos we use at work the same.
@hajjdawood 7 ай бұрын
"instead of getting the latest variant, which will already include most of the updates you now needed to install one by one (downloadable from MS). " Which just highlights another superior point of macOS, on any mac I can just hold Command + R to enter recovery mode and reinstall macOS and it will automatically pull the latest build instead of having to hack together a bootable USB drive like you do on windows.
@vivek_v 7 ай бұрын
@@hajjdawood "hack together a bootable USB drive" Yeah, and it's Apple's fault that they can't make a simple way to boot from USB. Internet Recovery is an absolute PITA with slower Wifi connections. Having dedicated USBs for Windows installations is so much faster in case I need them in the future.
@TheFourthWinchester 6 ай бұрын
@@hajjdawood that sounds horrible. Why not use USB stick?
@hajjdawood 6 ай бұрын
@@TheFourthWinchester Horrible? You push a button on your keyboard and your done. vs finding a USB stick, formatting it, installing the latest from Microsoft, using tools to remove all the garbage MS adds, then dealing with UFEI/secure boot settings and praying the installer works good.
@SPECTRA890 6 ай бұрын
@@hajjdawoodI tried that over bad internet connection it was a night mare. I ended up leaving it on the Mac Os X. After the 4th failed attempt at over 50%
@liam4184 9 ай бұрын
I mean, you're comparing Windows 10 to the newer Mac OS. Windows 11 is a lot cleaner and simpler and they seem to be copying Mac OS a bit more. I'm not saying it's perfect, but as a user of both OS' they both have their pros and cons.
@onestopviewfiles 9 ай бұрын
Problem with windows 11 is that there are some bugs around file explorer crashing and randomly displaying.
@liam4184 9 ай бұрын
@@onestopviewfiles Personally I have windows 11 on work PC, laptop and home PC and haven't experienced this. There's always going to be bugs on both OS's. Maybe Windows has more? but I've personally never ran into anything that bad.
@jeanbaptistelabelle 9 ай бұрын
@@onestopviewfileson a Microsoft machine ???
@coxyjmz Ай бұрын
All he had to do was remove one drive from start up processes
@alexmm01 9 ай бұрын
I appreciate all the ads that MacOS doesn’t have but cleaning up windows 11 to not be annoying only takes 30 seconds. Out of the box, it can be annoying. And I am not so sure why you had so many updates. I just installed windows (local vs cloud reinstall) on a 3 year old MSI laptop. About 20 updates and rebooted 2-3 times. Now up to date. I think it took about 30 minutes total.
@miroslavstevic2036 6 ай бұрын
Same here. I tried to set up Windows for my wife and gave up. It was unpredictable, having will of its own. We both use Linux now. Kids use Windows for gaming though.
@jgates 9 ай бұрын
Next episode: "My wife nearly left me when I gave her my old Windows computer." I hope you don't actually give her that mess. 🙂
@rodneytopor1846 9 ай бұрын
My thought as well.
@karmatraining 9 ай бұрын
Halfway through this video I was like "Well I guess wifey is getting a new 15" MacBook Air after all"
@purplecorpse4230 9 ай бұрын
Yeah I thought the video was going to end differently… like he couldn’t afford to get his wife a refurbished MacBook or something instead of his leftover old ass pc? lol
@Razertw 9 ай бұрын
Get her a M1 Air. Join the dark side.
@drinkinslim 9 ай бұрын
Honey, we now have no money left in our account, but here's an Apple computer. :D
@kh1188ish 9 ай бұрын
Switched to Mac mini early this year and love it. There was a bit of an initial learning curve/frustration but challenge accepted and overcome. I thought there was no way on board graphics would be as powerful as my Nvidia graphics card but OMG I was wrong. The little quiet unassuming Mac mini runs circles around my i7 32GB pc. The straw was a pc update that rendered my graphics card unusable until I did a window restore… what a mess, never again.
@weibrot6683 9 ай бұрын
yeah, the M. GPUs are adequat, not great, but fast enough for most users, it's just a bit unfortunate that you can't do too much with the Apple GPUs besides the basic stuff
@delgonemma 9 ай бұрын
Been using both windows and macOS and all I can say is windows 11 has gotten so much better after updates and I see no problem with windows all those add can be disabled and it takes only 10 to 15 minutes to install a fresh windows on a pc …
@clemenskotoku 9 ай бұрын
Yh i literally did installation on i3 11th gen today, i don't know why his own is taking 2 hours
@hajjdawood 7 ай бұрын
@@clemenskotoku hes counting the time it takes to update everything, install drivers, etc etc
@jeanbaptistelabelle 9 ай бұрын
Yeah, it is weird. He is not complaining about Windows but about Dell hardware and software. Maybe the reason why half of the student in Switzerland are using Surface and a significant other portion iPad Pro with pen.
@ArthropodSpidey 9 ай бұрын
Switzerland is a tiny country. No one cares.
@sh1pp 6 ай бұрын
The cranberries and other Microsoft loyalty begging services/applications are straight Microsoft, not Dell. The software updates are probably a mix, but he’s comparing with Apple where they do cumulative updates instead of stacked ones and where installation of most applications requires no reboot. At least 75% of the issues are from Microsoft, not Dell.
@jeanbaptistelabelle 6 ай бұрын
@@sh1pp no clue what is a "begging services". Microsoft is showing 2 things at install: XBox pass and OneDrive. If you have ever used an iPhone or MacOS, you would have realized that Apple pushes iCloud the same way. Plus you have ton of bloat ware on iOS for instance. So no, I do not see the difference. Sorry. Most of what he complains about is mostly Dell, not Windows. And do not tell me that MacOS major upgrade does not require a reboot.
@sh1pp 6 ай бұрын
@@jeanbaptistelabelle I am not re-watching the video to check, but from my memory he has 4-5 complaints specifically from MS (uncombined updates creates more updates on an out of date PC (Apple bundles out of date updates better reducing reboots when catching up), need to update after installing more applications than on Mac, injecting News and unwanted icons into the Start menu and search bar, frequency and style of One Note requests) and a few from Dell (some of the updates installed going to be for Dell drivers/software, probably linked IN, bad material choices). I am sure you know that most people don't buy MS devices as they historically did not have that option and now have very few, so this is the experience MS has designed by giving control of hardware support to their partnered vendors. I 100% agree that Apple's iCloud is comparable with OneDrive, but if you look at 5:08 you will see the variety of alerts he gets when opting out, and you don't get that on Apple. I think his issue was with the style of the nagging.
@brown2840 9 ай бұрын
The title of this video should be "Confirming My Bias - An Ode To Apple"
@mengshun 9 ай бұрын
35+ career SW engineering with Windows and same for personal use. I am so on board with this. And same experience - got a M1 Mac and have not looked back. Wife got a high end Dell and it's garbage. Do I miss some things? Sure. Do I miss Windows file management? Yes. But everything else.. effin no way. Driver hell, Performance beyond 5 min hell, durability hell, patch hell, battery life hell... just no. No more. And now we're staring down the barrel of being migrated to Windows 365 and Windows OS in the Cloud. Not. Even. If and when Windows ever gets its act together some some track record, sure I can be swayed. But not now and not for awhile.
@TimelyAdventure 9 ай бұрын
I wonder how good Windows on Arm will be once Snapdragon debuts their M-series beating chips, I'm on Mac OS and it does feel like Windows is more cluttered than it used to be when I used it several years ago
@Lofote 9 ай бұрын
Driver hell? never had that. Buy quality Windows computers and you don't ever have driver problems :)... I literally administrate ~1000 computers at my customers and I never get driver problems, because I let my customers buy good computers :).
@ajnart_ 9 ай бұрын
You miss windows file management ? On Mac it’s just Unix it makes so much more sense. The filesystem is so much better too
@Lofote 9 ай бұрын
@@ajnart_ i like the windows folder structure much more than the unix ones. /bin, /etc, /var, ... thats all not very innovative
@raymonddsouza8948 9 ай бұрын
Which computers, genuinely curious?@@Lofote
@robertmcgee4050 5 ай бұрын
I had the exact same experience. I used Windows since version 3.1. Only in the last few years of my career did I begin also using a MacBook Air. After retirement, I used the MacBook Air exclusively for a year. One day I needed to move some files in... OneDrive... and turned on the Windows PC. Suddenly I totally got what the Apple fanboys had been scoffing at. Initially I disliked MacOS because it seemed so "thin", stripped down, and lacking in features. This time, Windows reminded me of a little cupcake with 3 inches of frosting and sprinkles and birthday candles stuck in it - just SO MUCH CRAP to get through! And of course, several hours of updates, since it had been turned off for a year.
@juaast1 9 ай бұрын
Last weekend, I installed Win 11 in a 1 year old computer, and it took me about 15-20 min, most of the time just waiting (I don't think it asked me to re-start). I would blame the hardware. I have Mac and PC, no drama with any of them. Windows is much easier to work when dealing with 3-4 different programs at the same time, especially within a single screen.
@troypast3589 8 ай бұрын
Wipe the drive and install sure MAYBE 15-20 min but he is dead on for performing the updates and installing the apps can take hours. If you had a backup you could perhaps restore but with Windows the reason most of the time for a fresh install is to clear the registry and restore performance. I have been supporting windows for decades and a fresh install with apps, settings and data can take half a day or more. 15 mins never happens
@chamoore 9 ай бұрын
I'm a windows user but my wife has m1 macbook pro. When she has a problem, I have to deal with that. Troubleshooting on Mac OS is the worst nightmare.
@vonPeter_ 6 ай бұрын
I disagree, after 25 years on Windows I've switched to Mac 2 years ago and troubleshooting is the same amount of effort as on Windows. You are just not used to the different problems and different approaches. Googling it and the solution is literally 3 clicks away every time. Just like on Windows.
@alvaro_solis 9 ай бұрын
I tried MacOs for about a year and couldn’t stand it, sorry. I went back to Windows. Yes, there are some things I miss, like the design, the battery and the trackpad. Besides that, was a nightmare.
@kevingw5379 8 ай бұрын
Now a mac os user for over 8 months, the thing that drove me out of windows too was the updates and constant troubleshooting and intrusive messages. You wake up in the morning with a deadline or something urgent to deal with and you run into "windows updating don't turn off your computer!". Apparently after every "UPDATE" something breaks and that important application that you really need runs into an error and you need to restart. Every single time I would have to reinstall drivers for bluetooth and wifi because they would randomly stop working. WHY? Then I switched to mac and I was surprised why I had to endure all that crap. Now my wifi and bluetooth are always on, I take out my wireless earbuds "connected", I put away my earbuds I turn on my bluetooth speaker "connected". I go to work my macbook automatically connects to wifi, I go home my macbook automatically to my home network. It works every single time, NO TROUBLESHOOTING! Best of all no distracting messages and ads that you have to say no to a million times.
@Teluric2 6 ай бұрын
So people posting issues about mac are paid by MS?
@kevingw5379 6 ай бұрын
@@Teluric2 Windows is broken and it's becoming worse by the day, obviously mac is not perfect but it's so much better. If you could use mac os for a week you wouldn't need to post a comment like that, you would see for yourself which is better.
@cherrypop1685 4 ай бұрын
@Teluric2 Windows is... bad. To say the least... The problem is they have a majority market share and with that not much incentive to optimize. Sure, it is much easier to use Windows over Mac (things like having multiple windows open, file formatting, and if your a gamer the fact you can work on your own PC.) But, overall it's just terrible. Personally I have hopped back over to Lonux after a 13 year hiatus. Turns out you don't have to be dependent on a 80% market share company. And before your wondering... no I don't have to use the command line. There are distros with a desktop environment. Sure it takes a tiny bit of tweaking but, after installing Wine I can't say I can tell that I am not using Windows... well besides not getting bombarded by Microsoft software. Mint is the personal version of Linux I use but, Kubuntu or Ubuntu could also be options. Do note you will need to download a distro off the web but some even have virtual machine for you to try them with! Oh and if anyone tells you to use Arch... don't. 😊
@kevingw5379 4 ай бұрын
@@cherrypop1685 Thanx a lot for that recommendation, windows has actually gotten worse over the years and made the user experience horrible. I will try Linux when microsoft stop supporting windows 10 because at the moment my desktop can't meet windows 11 requirements for upgrade. Meanwhile I'm more than happy and quite comfortable on Mac, I've gotten used to it and I don't miss the constant interruptions and ads of windows. And oh yeah, and in windows things break all the time especially after updates, I certainly don't miss that.
@StylishandGrateful 7 ай бұрын
Hmm interesting to hear your thoughts. After using Mac for 4 months I’m giving up and going back to windows, I don’t like it at all. It’s just inefficient for me and very difficult to use after years on a pc. The one drive on pc is the same as iCloud, if you don’t get on that you’d have issues as well. I can buy 4 computers for the price of one Mac.
@GlennBrownOz 9 ай бұрын
Sorry if you don't even know what OneDrive is then you never really knew Windows. Agree with all the extra Spam though, Microsoft has been very bad the last few years in this space, but it's not like Apple doesn't shove their own apps at you it's just less irritating.
@111-Ti 9 ай бұрын
I really got entertained by your video Gentleman 😊👌🏼your style in presenting your frustration from windows is really humorous yet realistic 😎👍🏼
@Mc_Fly 9 ай бұрын
I personally have used both and have nothing against MacOS. BUT: In my opinion this is by no means a "Fair" comparison. You start off by saying that you grabbed your "old Dell" from the shelf where it has been sitting for over a year and not been turned on. Then you complain that this specific Dell Lineup has problems with the build quality and that it's sticky, etc... What has that to do with Windows exactly? There are a whack ton of devices that have an all aluminum body design and that are built very very well. So that is not a valid point against windows. Same with the error upon boot where a setting in the BIOS had changed. This has nothing to do with windows. This is again on Dell. Also then you complain that you had to install a ton of updates. Like... What do you expect from a Windows 10 Laptop that has not been used in over a year? Obviously there are updates. And yes if you do a OS Update on a Mac it also reboots. I personally don't have any application that immediately reboots my PC after installing it. Yes there are some installations that ask to reboot the PC but most of the time you can ignore it and use the software as is. This is on the Developer and yet again not on Windows. Also when showing the Screenshots of the Windows Updates you mixed in WIndows 8 into this. Why not use the actual screenshots? And that OneDrive Pop-Up you've been talking about: You can either disable it so it won't start on boot or simply uninstall OneDrive completely. It's that easy. MacOS and iOS also try to sell you iCloud like it's a cure for cancer. I can already hear the comments coming in that are saying "oh he's a Mac-Hater" or "Windows Fanboy..." But if you carefully watch that comparison without preferring one side more than the other, this is objectively not a fair comparison.
@limerickgangster 7 ай бұрын
It's cruelty to give your wife that laptop!
@HCMORGI 8 ай бұрын
I feel like Windows is a very different experience in the US? For me, there are no ads, no linkedin, no nothing. Maybe the EU has Microsoft regulated well enough, thanks I guess haha
@mibreit-photo 9 ай бұрын
I guess some day I should try mac again. But I still remember when I had to write software for and on a Mac and it was hell. I was constantly forced to do updates to everything - I get it the ecosystem. But I never liked it. Currently, there's no reason for me to switch to a Mac though. My Dell XPS still works and isn't yet sticky ;-)
@roodick85 9 ай бұрын
Same...my HP, Lenovo and Surface works perfectly none of this mess he's talking about lol
@hajjdawood 7 ай бұрын
@@roodick85 because you are used to the crap, once you use macOS when you go back youll see and feel it.
@hajjdawood 7 ай бұрын
Updates are never forced, you actually have to go out of your way to enable automatic updates.
@newtonwonghk 2 ай бұрын
Mac never DISTURBS you with forced reboot / forced update / ads because it respects you gotta freaking work. Used Windows 3.1 95 NT XP Vista 10 for years. They never change the worst part in the OS which is CONSTANTLY INTERRUPTING you. I stay away from anything MicroSoft as much as possible now. Fresh install means spending hours disabling the tonne of crap that comes with Windows.
@robhofkes3221 7 ай бұрын
Windows has nothing to do with the sticky plastic. Also you can just install Linux and you have no.problem with rebooting. The real downside of Apple is that can not update either the ram or ssd. I have to admit that the Apple goes a long time with the battery. Just on a side note Apple OS looks very similar to Linux
@simonemastellonephotography 9 ай бұрын
After 6 years of MAC OS i return to Windows on my descktop , no regret , with windows i can do more
@angrysob7962 9 ай бұрын
This is pretty amusing to me because my story is the exact opposite of yours. A few OS updates ago, I really started hating my Mac so I gave Windows 11 a shot and I absolutely love it. My Windows desktops and laptop perform much better than my M1 and M2 Macs. And that's not based strictly on speed. If you're hooked into an MS Office and MS business apps environment (as I am at work), the Mac just can't keep up. Office apps for the Mac platform are absolute garbage and they seem to get worse with each update. The app development tools I use are available on both Mac and PC, but they perform much better on the PC. PCs are infinitely more user-configurable on both the hardware and software side of things as well. Is upkeep and maintenance on the Mac easier? Sure. But the extra work required in Windows is so worth it, I don't complain about it. I actually enjoy tinkering around on a PC now. With this said, the first time I have a major issue with Windows and have to do a "fresh install" like days gone by I may be back on the Mac bandwagon, but for now I'm much more productive (and happy) with my PCs. As with most things in life, pick the right tool for the job you're trying to do.
@user-ks5kd1wg3e 9 ай бұрын
I am at the opposite side of the spectrum. made the change 2-3 years ago and just got back to a PC with WIndows because Mac just wasnt for me. While windows has it's issues, the fact that on such expensive products you only give 256gb as the smallest memory... and 8gb of RAM. SO now i have 4tb of NVME M.2 ssd storage and 32 ggb for very cheap and guess what besides editing videos and photos I can also game on the windows machine...
@sp3edstr 6 ай бұрын
I think this is a fairly accurate end-user experience. However if a tech gets the same machine though they would make very quick work of eliminating all the junk and clutter from Windows.
@ngck 9 ай бұрын
My Dell XPS 13" suffered from this as well, after being put in storage for less than a year. Isopropyl alcohol and quite a bit of elbow grease can be used to remove the stickyness.
@RenBobbins 9 ай бұрын
I use Mac in my personal life and Windows for work. MacOS is far superior from a UX perspective. When Mac updates, once a month or so, it takes 5 minutes and it’s completely painless. Windows updates twice a week and constantly has to restart, or you lose performance. I hate how expensive everything Apple is, but owning Apple everything is completely stress free. I’m not going to say “it’s worth it”, but I want to.
@Teluric2 6 ай бұрын
Stress free? google " mac overheating issues"
@bydesign868 4 ай бұрын
I also began with Windows . . . I just ordered my second MacBook Air, the M3. My M1 is still extremely fast and capable, but it's 4 years old now and wanted to update. I'm getting the M3 with 16GB Memory, and 1TB SSD. I am a graphic designer and use Adobe software. If you have no experience with a Mac, you couldn't possibly understand why Mac users are completely in love with Apple!
@hiboostsupra5965 9 ай бұрын
I drove my neighbor's Model T and now I realize I totally don't like Ford. Super helpful, right?
@mogenshansen7210 9 ай бұрын
I can relate. It is pretty close to my experience, having a Dell XPS 15 and a Macbook Pro M2. My Dell is working fine (my previous XPS wasn't working fine - heavy thermal throttling), and not falling apart. But all of the updating, rebooting and pushing various offering when I just want to get stuff done. And that is before talking about battery life and performance
@ThorDyrden 9 ай бұрын
you get updates yes... I want them - in deed I phase out IT equipment not being supported with updates any more. But what am I doing different, that I only have to reboot on really signifcant updates - once or twice a year, where more or less half of the OS got exchanged or of course on UEFI-Updates? I can't remember, when a normal Windows update or driver needed a reboot last time - and I have three different Windows 11 Systems in daily use. Not even such low-level updates like GPU-driver need a reboot.
@SToXC_. 9 ай бұрын
idk how y all have issues and all this blootshit my windows 10 laptop also Just works fine 😅 and i dont have all this reboot thing, i think you guys are making the issue bigger than it is, literally after the good first setup (that still takes time, as it should, on any device) everything is good to go and i can just forget about even having a "windows" or whatever, and just do what i need
@hajjdawood 7 ай бұрын
@@SToXC_. Its like a hoarder, you are used to crap, once you go on a clean OS it will make sense. I was the biggest Windows fan for almost two decades buying almost every major Windows version on day 1. Windows 95, 98 second edition, XP, Vista, 8, 8.1, 10 being the last one I bought. When I worked at Google (as an IT support staff) it was the first time I was really exposed to macOS and ultimately was sold by the hardware build quality and how great the trackpad worked. Once I experienced how clean and uncluttered the OS was and how easy and clean updating was going back to windows was such a terrible experience.
@levifig 9 ай бұрын
This is pretty much par for the course. The reason a lot of folks are adamant about recommending Macs to other folks is because they themselves know “where they come from”… 😅 FWIW, I use Linux, Windows, and macOS daily. I know the pros and cons of each system. I will vehemently recommend Macs, especially to people who use their computers to get work done! My “family support requests” have gone down to near 0 since I got everyone on Macs about 10-15y ago! 🙏
@OregonRose2010 7 ай бұрын
I've been using a MacBook Pro in some fashion since 2013, and will never go back to a Windows computer. I have various Windows versions (XP, 7, 10, and 11) in VMs for odds and ends as-needed, however (legacy stuff and to run old games 😂). My next and final computer will most likely be an M3 Max MacBook Pro. Thank you for this video!
@ansoncall6497 4 ай бұрын
I use MacOS, Windows, and Linux and there are things about all of them that I love.
@adl0815 9 ай бұрын
Holy hell, that was entertaining. Been watching your videos about the switch to Mac, as i´m planning to do so myself. Glad you´re not regretting the decision, as it seems.
@TimFitzwater 9 ай бұрын
I hope this happens to me. I got a great deal on a MacBook M1 Max and I absolutely love the power. Same as you(and partly influenced by your vids) I have replaced my custom editing tower PC. But I am not yet used to the OS or the frustrations of file management on a Mac. I really hate trying to multi task across monitors. (The menu bars not sticking with apps is awful) I know I’ll get used to most of it - but even if I never like the OS - being able to have a high quality feeling machine that I can hook to a 2 4K monitors, my speakers, cards reader, extra SSDs, and internet with one cable then unplug that one cable and edit 4K videos at the brewery…. It’s worth it.
@karmatraining 9 ай бұрын
I wish Apple would let pro users customize Finder more than they do. Just let us do what we want. Normies can keep default macOS.
@TheFourthWinchester 6 ай бұрын
This is more of a you problem because you're using a 10 year old laptop that's still getting updates from MS. I just got a new laptop and it works so well.
@WalrusRiderEntertainment 4 ай бұрын
I call windows “Win Blows”. The few programs I like in windows I run on the Mac in Parallels. Best of both worlds
@shiladitya_biswas 9 ай бұрын
"The updates need an update". Couldn't have been summed up any better
@NYsports890 9 ай бұрын
The computers have a CMOS battery (like the same as a watch battery) on the motherboard. They expire after about 5 years. Then the BIOS reverts to factory settings. That is why you needed to change a BIOs settings for it to boot.
@SToXC_. 9 ай бұрын
@@ramp6727you re saying this as if its some sort of Pro or advantage for macbooks? 😂😂 its irrelevant
@RafalBorowski 7 ай бұрын
If it takes 2 hours to format and install windows 11 you're doing something wrong. I've done it hundred times and it's a 15 min process (not counting the updates + drivers etc etc... which does take forever).
@mikeandersonwa 4 ай бұрын
This is exactly how I feel every time I use my wife's laptop... or the computer at work. I get that you can customize the hell out of Windows, and there are tons of hoops you can jump through to make it work beautifully, but when I get a computer I don't want to have to customize it and jump through hoops. I like having a clean interface that just works exactly how I want it to.
@SquareOFortune 9 ай бұрын
“Ladies and gentlemen… …we got ‘im.” 😆 Happy to see you’re still enjoying the M1 after a bumpy start. My Mac is my go-to tool for work and visual/audio projects, and my PC is my main gaming rig and for apps I don’t feel like getting setup on my Mac. Definitely can be weird going back and forth between the two worlds, but it’s been part of my workflow and hobby time since about 2010 at home and all my jobs since then. Different tools for different jobs, I suppose. But troubleshooting random stuff going on with my Windows desktops is definitely more annoying than troubleshooting stuff that might happen on my Mac, that’s for sure.
@jwlindsa 9 ай бұрын
That was a great video! I have been a Mac user for some time and was forced to use a Windows Surface Pro computer and I feel you! The constant updates and random freezing were just a couple of the myriad of issues I encountered! I finally got fed up and would bring my personal Mac laptop in to work on!
@Teluric2 6 ай бұрын
Tell me how muxh hits you get when you google " macs freezes" Can you show a proof that your windows freezes or is just a virtual issue to bash windows on a computer that doesnt exist?
@MarkRosengarten 7 ай бұрын
I went fully over to Mac years ago. It just works. Recently, my mom bought a serious gaming rig, running Windows 11. So I set it up for her. Same thing, reboot after every little thing. The amount of crapware preloaded was insane and the constant wheedling from M$ to buy another of their services as you go through the start up process was just disgusting. Then an automatic update corrupted Windows and the system had to be flushed and started fresh. So I went through it all again. Then it happened one more time, a day later. The did a fresh install without the crapware and the machine has been running smoothly ever since. The experience cemented my determination to stick with MacOS and iOS products.
@floatingsidewalk1 3 ай бұрын
Dynamically loading an app actually makes sense, instead of shopping all the value add features in a single image. I do agree there should be a “no hassle” version that is minimally configured and is missing all the crazy cloud features.
@rebeccaw9656 9 ай бұрын
Also left Windows for an M1 Mac… but still use Windows apps on my Mac because outside the US, University and business is all Microsoft 365 based in my country (Australia). OneDrive is just iCloud for Windows, your wife will likely use it. And Bing - you can turn off the junk news and advertising, but it’s useful because Bing is Chat-GPT 4 (Microsoft bought major shares in it) and Dalle E! And Copilot. And Edge is so much better on Mac’s than Safari and Chrome, and being Chromium based, you have all the same benefits as chrome. Just turn off the shit news and advertising in settings…
@jonathankitchen 9 ай бұрын
PC is the biggest seller for a reason . Your experience is with a weak laptop. Buy a desk top that is self built .. with a NVidia graphics card . You can render with Cuda cores and nothing beats that . Apple make designer items in my opinion. I was an apple user for 15 years and now I understand what a real computer is ... its something you design from scratch with parts that work for you . ( you cant even upgrade ram or hard drives in modern apple computers )
@hsvfanjan17 9 ай бұрын
How does a 4090 help you with all these ads and so on, though? It doesn't and that's why that argument doesn't counter any of his complaints. Can you get a more powerful Windows PC than a Mac? Yes, but that's not at all what this video was about.
@jonathankitchen 9 ай бұрын
@@hsvfanjan17 yes but the minor complaints he makes have nothing to do with my experience of a PC .. My PC is a beast and i have experience of Apple also . The stickiness of a laptop brand ... who cares ? power and getting work done is what matters to me . That's my own opinion . You can care more about the build of the outer shell.. i don't .. I want to render massive files in 3D without thermal throttling .
@jameso9221 9 ай бұрын
you can just turn off ads and one drive.... its not hard.@@hsvfanjan17
@mengshun 9 ай бұрын
Um, why on god's green earth do I want to lug a desktop around? Especially when said M1 Mac can dance and sing around the desktop, disconnected from the outlet?
@brandonw1604 9 ай бұрын
None of the hardware has to do with Microsoft’s poor decisions with software.
@ThiloWitting 6 ай бұрын
lmao, I was a Windows user for a long time and also switched to Mac after all those updates, bugs, and everything drove me insane. Can't believe Windows looks worse now than when I switched to Mac years ago. :D Happy to pay my Apple tax, thanks for reminding me.
@davidg3594 2 ай бұрын
You don't have to restart the laptop every time you install an app (I don't talk about Windows updates). When the app asks if you will restart, you say no, and after you install all of your apps, you restart!
@mba_leo 2 ай бұрын
From this video, I get the impression that when he meets a new girl, he would say to his wife, 'OMG, I can't believe I lived with that sticky old woman.' This mirrors his attitude towards technology: he justifies downloading and paying for third-party apps on Mac to do simple tasks like snapping tabs, while nitpicking minor issues on Windows. His bias is evident, and it's hard to believe he actually used Windows before. I also use a Mac but I miss some of the amazing features that Windows offers. The video comes across as biased and unfair, making it hard to take his opinions seriously. Both operating systems have their strengths and weaknesses, and they should be used according to the right use case.
@lovetheworld101_ 2 ай бұрын
Exactly what I was thinking. 😅
@christopherlindloff8331 25 күн бұрын
I use both everyday for work (IT) I live in Azure via either Windows or a Mac, working on various data projects. Windows 11 is a dumpster fire of BS these days. I think Windows 7 was my last favorite version of Windows. 10 and 11 are just a mess and 11 is nothing but an ad machine for MS products. Just the simple act of changing my default browser to Chrome in Windows 11 vs MacOS is night and day easier on the Mac. One simple click, no complaint, it just changes it. It has been in the same location in settings for ever. It seems like almost every time I go into settings in Windows 11, stuff has been moved around or renamed. It is the QVC of operating systems.
@rezen24 9 ай бұрын
My first MacOS machine was a 13" Intel MacBook Pro that I bought with air miles years ago (with the touch bar)... there are still some things that absolutely drive me bonkers on MacOS (such as changing backup location for iPhone) ... but as you indicated, so much stuff is just easier and not nearly as irritating as on Windows these days. Makes you wonder ... what kind of User Experience initiatives Microsoft and Apple have? They both seem to miss the mark in so many ways, although Apple less than Microsoft at least from an OS extent (in the way that I personally use the OS).
@hubert3637 7 ай бұрын
yes it is true that Windows have more demanding setup. But, - if you do this - and you have fast machine - it works quite good.
@oh_goliath 4 ай бұрын
I really hope you saved yourself so much future trouble and just bought or built her an office PC. If it sits at a desk full time, a laptop (especially an old one with that many issues) is unnecessary.
@haruyanto8085 3 ай бұрын
He has a desktop lol, that's the point, that Dell laptop isn't old, you can buy a MacBook from the same year and still get good use out of it
@gastonhitw720 2 ай бұрын
Plot twist: Bro was never a windows user
@nazirovahmad4216 2 ай бұрын
He was and I was too. Windows is trash.
@somemoresmors 24 күн бұрын
We've been bamboozled!!
@gastonhitw720 24 күн бұрын
@@nazirovahmad4216 windows 11 is trash, I do like almost all previous versions except for 8
@jiyusuzuki 9 ай бұрын
If you want to use Windows, debloat it. Otherwise, it'll be painful. Chris Titus has a good tool for this. I have found out that GNU/Linux will be fine for most people doing office tasks on a computer. It's cleaner, but things like Microsoft Office won't work out of the box. Good Luck. Some of the distros I recommend for new users are Fedora, Debian, Linux Mint, Pop OS
@jeanbaptistelabelle 9 ай бұрын
Windows has no bloatware. What are you removing out of the box and wy would you 'eed any specific program for it??? I guess you do not have a normal Windows machine from Microsoft. Right?
@messycode7738 Ай бұрын
@@jeanbaptistelabelle Windows has so much bloatware, as well as spyware. and this isnt from OEM isntall, I mean pure windows from microsoft has bloatware and spyware built in. the script he is talking about removes most of it. In todays world, we shouldnt be using windows, it is too slow and too unsecured. the world is putting too much trust into this megacorp called microsoft.
@thatspiritualhumane 9 ай бұрын
Dude, its not about Apple M1 vs Windows. Its just that after 2 yrs on a Mac, you saw the worst Windows laptop maker Dell XPS lineup which has so many flaws, I cannot make the list in 10 lines, starting with heat sync, thermals, OS issue, hardware issues & far more !
@TheLjohnfoxx 5 ай бұрын
This is just an apple fanboi hating Windows, most of this rant was just garbage. A total fresh install of Windows 10 or 11, takes about half an hour.
@billx4266 9 ай бұрын
Jeez dude, start making a newer usb stick with a newer windows 11.... then you dont have to restart it 1000 times.
@thefly373 9 ай бұрын
That's exactly what I was thinking. Those 3.5" floppies suggest his OS version is a few generations old... that and the popup messages look like Windows XP. How long ago was that released?
@vonPeter_ 6 ай бұрын
Big thumbs up for this tip! Sometimes I have to reinstall Windows computers (for friends, relatives, etc). I always start with the download of the latest Windows version and then install that ISO from a USB drive. (I'm a Mac user for 2 years now btw)
@ZheLi05 6 ай бұрын
I am mostly impressed by confidence of this KZfaqr with over 1M subscribers who never bothered to get the video reviewed or even just simply checking he is using the latest Windows version. Well, I guess that is how you can attract clicks. (I could create a video of using Windows XP and complain that things don't work. but what's the point?)
@mjp5546 9 ай бұрын
Man I have been watching your videos for ages and this is very satisfying to finally see you appreciate what Apple brings to the table. Been through the exact same cycle as you about 10 years ago. Apple stuff just works, which is all I care about.
@Jack_Rn 9 ай бұрын
My computing life changed forever in 2015 when I bought an iMac - wished I'd done it years earlier - There's some adjustment when finding your way around the mac os system so stick with it, but I promise you - I wouldn't use a windows machine again if you paid me. Never going back.
@notloki3140 9 ай бұрын
It's a bit in poor taste to say, "well, after updating my Mac OS I do not need to restart my machine!" when in fact it's more in the lines of "well, after updating my LINUX machine, I do not need to restart the thing!". I'm mentioning this since a Mac and Windows user might fight about which one is better, there's always a superior mind out there ready to pounce and say "Actually, Linux is better than both!". To a Mac user I say, at least Microsoft is actually doing its own thing! Also, I like to game, have compatibility with old tech etc. I used my (granted, older) iMac for a few days and all I could do is the same thing my old Android tablet can do, watch KZfaq and browse some of the internet? And buy the latest one? I don't care about video editing, or pay the exorbitant fees to be able to do so. Try running a server for an older game on a Mac, or play most games. It's all to do with what you need it for. My laptops do not have crappy faux carbon material on it, though the machine itself is amazing, some of the materials are questionable, but hey, at least they are trying things. Apple? They did not start with aluminium, they had equally crappy plastic slabs nobody cares for. You can also buy laptops with the same built quality or better. My Surface laptop is amazing, even today, sure the crapantara looks like someone vomited on it and never bother to clean it, but again, different. It's as repairable as your M1 MacBook lol.
@cyclomaniac9086 9 ай бұрын
Ha Ha... best review ever. Windows world drove me so crazy I bailed for Linux several years ago. There are lot's of great clean and efficent distros out there so there is really no reason to put up with abuse from Microsoft or even Apple for that matter. Thanks for the chuckles.
@JacquesCoetzerAU 9 ай бұрын
Bruh Linux is not perfect either. Too much fragmentation with so many distros, still too dependent on the terminal for new users, no HDR support, Nvidia drivers are proprietary and buggy, you can easily break your Linux install when tinkering, the community can be elitist and toxic, a billion different package managers with different commands across different distros (apt, yum, pacman, dnf) etc. etc. etc.
@jeanbaptistelabelle 9 ай бұрын
What kind of abuse? Example?
@ganthc 9 ай бұрын
@@JacquesCoetzerAUnot perfect, but as a mainly Windows user, I installed Linux Mint on my old laptop really easy. The interface is just like Windows, and all the drivers loaded with minimal effort. I was very impressed with how easy it was.
@cinderellapoison 9 ай бұрын
Lee, just listen. Please just buy your wife Macbook Air 15 M2. Dont give her that sticky crap. I was on Windows for more than 25 years, and been a Mac user for 2 years now. It is night and day how Apple does things better, lighter, smarter, with ease and battery life to spare. I've got my girl a Macbook Air 13 2020 M1, and she loved it more than any other hw or gadget she ever owned. Not to speak of the ecosystem integration.
@jeanbaptistelabelle 9 ай бұрын
I guess you never had a... laptop by the company that makes actually Windows, am I right?
@cinderellapoison 9 ай бұрын
Definitely not, but I have major experience with high end and/or gaming laptops such as XPS's, Elitebooks, etc... @@jeanbaptistelabelle
@LouRao 6 ай бұрын
I have been an Apple user for years and love it. Although I believe your personal Windows experience isn’t justified. Windows has come a long way, and the 11th version is pretty damn good compared to its predecessor, Windows Vista. Of course, there are going to be pros and cons with any OS, but to say Mac OS is better than Windows is foolish. Like I said, I've been an Apple fan for years and can point out that in the last several years, Mac OS, iPad OS, and Apple Watch OS updates are getting worse. Safari, with all the latest updates, is now a mess, not recognizing many sites I browse on. Having several tabs open and going from one tab back to another browser page goes blank, not compatible with Facebook or KZfaq - crashes too many times. I can give you a list of Apple's issues with the latest updates that is widely available all over social media. And those updates you’re complaining about in Windows, Apple has been having its share. Again, I still love my Apple devices, but Windows 11 is pretty damn near perfection compared to their older OS.
@rodhoutx 8 ай бұрын
I use Macs and PC's, but the struggle is real for doing a new Windows install and then going through all the updates. Then downloading and installing any needed drivers from Dell. Just as a comparison, if you do a clean install on a Mac it will download the latest Mac OS version, which of course already has all the updates in it, and you're done. Plus Time Machine for backups since it will also restore your applications and settings (since it's all just file based).