No doubt current day Windows is a capable device for all tasks. Too bad it treats you like a free user by clogging your operating system with ads while spying on you like a crazy stalker.

I don't get any ads. But yeah I'll give you that on the Telemetry.

Honestly it doesn't feel any different for me on MacOS. Both OSes push first-party music and cloud services, both OSes beg you to use their browser, both OSes show news with their own built-in ad networks. At this point for Windows 11 and MacOS 13, I'm shocked how little these OSes have meaningfully changed since the early 2000s. Both companies feel like they're taking a detour around user empowerment to focus on Selling Moar Services™.

While we're looking at things from a retro-idealist lens, even Android and iOS seem unnecessarily bloated. It feels like the vast majority of every FAANG's engineering effort goes into crippling the user nowadays.

Almost 24 hours later so likely you won’t see this, but I’m interested what your setup is hardware (monitors) wise and workflow wise that works best on Windows?

I’m pretty platform agnostic. I own and relatively regularly use Windows, Linux, and MacOS machines and have spent time using each as my main work system in the last five years.

I currently use a single 49” monitor and I’ve found MacOS with Amethyst for tiling and window management plays the nicest on it but your comment about hand mangling (and never completely remembered) meta key combos definitely rings true.

I haven’t found anything on Windows or Linux that doesn’t have the same issues though. It’s possible I’m irrationally afraid of mistypes and overly avoid single meta key combos on any system.