“These are words I never thought I’d be writing,” Adrian Kingsley-Hughes writes for ZDNet. “After more than two decades of being a dedicated Windows power user, someone who over that time has installed and supported countless systems running versions of Windows spanning from 3.0 to 8.1, I’ve now all but given up on the platform.”
“It might sound odd, but writing these words actually makes me sad. I devoted my 10,000 hours to mastering the platform, plus thousands more, and got the point where there wasn’t a file, registry entry, or command line trick that I wasn’t familiar with,” Kingsley-Hughes writes. “I knew how to make Windows work.”
“But now, other than for test systems and virtual machines, I carry out my day-to-day work on a variety of OS X, iOS and Android systems. I barely giving my Windows PC systems a second glance,” Kingsley-Hughes writes. “My primary work system is a MacBook Pro, and in the ten months I’ve had it it’s flawlessly done everything I’ve asked of it, from run Microsoft Word to render 4K video. I’ve lost count of the number of notebooks I’ve owned over the years, but this MacBook Pro is, by far, the most reliable system I’ve owned, and I put part of that down to the fact that it doesn’t run Windows.”
“Sure, I’ve downloaded and installed Windows 8.1 onto a number of systems for testing, and I’ve put an awful lot of hours into getting to know this latest release of Windows, but I see nothing in this new version that excites me sufficiently to tempt me back into the Microsoft ecosystem,” Kingsley-Hughes writes. “If anything, the effect has been the exact opposite, confirming my belief that parting ways with Windows was the right thing to do.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Welcome into the light, Adrian!
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Reminds me of when I switched from a Commodore 64 to a Macintosh 128K.
“I’m switching from my Mac and getting a PC”, said nobody ever after the advent of OSX in 2001.
“Dude, a You’re getting (out of) a Hell!”
Welcome, and you’ll please forgive me, but, duh.
I’m officially over the line and firmly into old-fart Mac-user-dom, and with those qualifications I have to ask, why? Why did you ever use Windows without checking into alternatives first? Why did you do your part to enable the lying IT dweebs (not all of them of course – but the vast majority for sure) to cause management to dismiss everything that wasn’t Windows, out-of-hand? Why did you do your part to make long-time not-Windows users, like me, get persecuted for advocating anything that wasn’t Windows, and most especially if it WAS Mac? Why did you do your part to feed into that mind set that has, to this day, perpetuated the dogma, nay, the miasma, that is Windows? Why?
I promise not to make these rants too often, in fact, I think this is the first one, but, I’ve been a non-Windows user since the Mac 128, and I find it difficult to be overly cordial to computer users who didn’t do their home work in the first place – and as already stated, I’m old and fart a lot.
I was young and open-minded, once upon a time, and that fact saved me from drinking the Windows kool-aid back in the day. Let that be a lesson to you young whipper-snappers.
But yea, welcome to the realm of intelligent computing, but really dude – duh.