After using a new MacBook Pro almost exclusively for the last 7 months or so, I picked up my HP Specter X360 laptop a few days ago and started using it again. It’s a great machine, but man, the Microsoft/Windows ecosystem is a disaster. Being away and then coming back brought that to the forefront. The Specter laptop has Windows Hello facial recognition which has stopped working for the third time since purchasing this laptop in 2021. This is a software issue: as soon as I reset the PC and reinstall the HP software, it will work again. Whether it’s an HP problem or a Microsoft problem doesn’t matter. All I care about is I spent $1800 on this machine and it doesn’t work and it sucks.
Additionally, as I type this, I have 24 notifications in Windows for emails already read and to-dos already marked as complete.
And Microsoft desperately wants me to try “New Outlook” which doesn’t even mark emails I’ve read as read when I use it.
Then there’s battery life. And the advertisements. And, and, and.
MacOS certainly has its flaws. I don’t like it, but I choose it because it’s predictable and it looks, feels, and behaves like it was written by adults. Windows and the Microsoft ecosystem (hardware partners, M365 services, etc.) are simply completely enschittified. What a desappointment.
After using a new MacBook Pro almost exclusively for the last 7 months or so, I picked up my HP Specter X360 laptop a few days ago and started using it again. It’s a great machine, but man, the Microsoft/Windows ecosystem is a disaster. Being away and then coming back brought that to the forefront. The Specter laptop has Windows Hello facial recognition which has stopped working for the third time since purchasing this laptop in 2021. This is a software issue: as soon as I reset the PC and reinstall the HP software, it will work again. Whether it’s an HP problem or a Microsoft problem doesn’t matter. All I care about is I spent $1800 on this machine and it doesn’t work and it sucks.
Additionally, as I type this, I have 24 notifications in Windows for emails already read and to-dos already marked as complete.
And Microsoft desperately wants me to try “New Outlook” which doesn’t even mark emails I’ve read as read when I use it.
Then there’s battery life. And the advertisements. And, and, and.
MacOS certainly has its flaws. I don’t like it, but I choose it because it’s predictable and it looks, feels, and behaves like it was written by adults. Windows and the Microsoft ecosystem (hardware partners, M365 services, etc.) are simply completely enschittified. What a desappointment.
