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I am not a religion follower in any thinkable way But a happy user, for sure. The issue is, that any positive or negative experience report from any side is easily perceived as preaching and evangelizing. That's not my intention. Still, I have spent a lot of my life time typing on keyboards and staring at screens connected to computers running all kinds of systems (CP/M, DOS, Windows, OS/2, BSD, Linux, Irix, HP-UX, Solaris, Novell Netware, macOS,...) and made decisions for myself based on all these experiences for good reasons. Just as anyone else. It's a personal decision that everyone needs to make and I see no religion in sharing the reasons behind it. The issue that arises quite often is that people consider their own personal decisions as "right or wrong" kind of decisions and expect everyone else to have the same priorities.

 

Me too. When I started in 1983 (I was thirteen) it was CP/M, followed by DOS and Windows (I'm not counting the Commodore saga, as they were for personal use). I've used all the Windows editions since 1.0. I still put my hands on Windows computers, both at my customers' and with virtual machines (as well as Linux, including physical machines). I've moved to Mac in 2005/2006, and sure today I'm more skilled in MacOS that other systems because of everyday use, but I still can use others. MacOS "just works" more than others.

 

 

At the same time, anyway, I must say QA at Apple is constantly degrading with time. Once upon a time, a ridiculous bug such as the one we're discussing about would have never happened; as well as for several years the equivalent of blue screen of death was never seen on my laptop; now it sometimes happens (*). My previous MBP was a disaster, with a physical problem on the internal hardware that was fixed twice (in warranty) and at the third occurrence, I gave up.

 

 

(*) Indeed, I think that the problem is with a USB hub that, if plugged when the battery goes down and the system freezes, causes any kind of harm. The same hub is not defective, as it works well e.g. with a Linux laptop. It's probably an integration issue.