I dropped windows because I could no longer tolerate the abusive nature of windows 11 which is obviously only going to continue and get worse. Re-enabling disabled features during updates? Screenshotting your desktop for AI you have no intention of using?
Contacting and delivering encrypted payloads to telemetry servers even with telemetry disabled? The battle against the concept of a local account? Default bitlocker and cloud-based key storage???? More managed services that never actually get MANAGED? Fuck M$ I'd sooner use a mac.
MacOS has everything you just complained about, and has arbitrary limitations on compatability with non-apple devices. I doubt you'd sooner use a mac. That's like saying "fuck BMW for making subscription service heated seats, I'd sooner buy a tesla."
I'm no mac fanboy but it really doesn't. Mac has things like App tracking transparency, privacy labels, differential privacy. In general their privacy policy protects the consumer. Microsoft meanwhile has NONE of that, their policy allows blanket collection and they certainly do exactly that.
Fair point, but what I'm getting at is that macOS is straight up designed maliciously. It doesn't matter that it's more secure when that security is mostly performative and only really exists to inconvenience people into giving up and fully switching to the apple ecosystem. 1/2
Wanna share a jpg from android? It gives a warning about unknown files being dangerous before you can even enable the feature. Wanna share a jpg from an iPhone? You bet it works by default and doesn't say anything about security.
Totally agree, Apple employs a huge amount of toxic anti-patterns. But they aren't data brokers like Microsoft and Google are (perhaps I should say: YET) so when it comes specifically to privacy they win. That said? I use linux, so this is like comparing prisons when I've already escaped ;)
Fair, I still use Windows 99% of the time, albeit reluctantly lol That said, the main reason I haven't fully switched to linux is just compatibility. I have a bunch of software and peripherals which only work on Windows. If I just needed my PC for gaming, I'd at least give linux a proper shot.