Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
I&#x27;m not 100% happy with where Apple is at, but I don&#x27;t think I ever was. But I&#x27;m not going to switch.<p>I get the slickest hardware, great battery life, the best touchpad and keyboard, and a hi-resolution screen that doesn&#x27;t have battery life, flicker, tint, or scaling issues.<p>Windows is still...Windows. The bash subsystem is half-baked. Windows itself is still the same mess. Docking is still a joke.  Performance is terrible, laptop hardware is still &#x27;almost-as-good&#x27;, display scaling is a joke, and the ecosystem is still fragmented beyond belief.<p>Linux is still as bad as it ever was. It&#x27;s a nice place to visit but I wouldn&#x27;t want to live there. I&#x27;ve been using Linux on laptops since Redhat 7 (the first one from 2000) and a Dell Latitude C-series.<p>Somehow I shut my laptop off and it booted backup to a failure message, I had to make another bootable USB and go online to find out how to do a fsck. I was using external monitors without issue for a month, and then one day the configuration changed to a point where I couldn&#x27;t even use the laptop with it&#x27;s built-in display. The sound and volume controls are a joke. I was prevented from installing any packages because of an issue with a package from Google.<p>All fairly minor, fixable issues, but I forgot all about them because I haven&#x27;t had to deal with crap like that since I switched to a Mac back in 2010.