Many will call you crazy due to the phrasing, but you're not wrong. The problem is that people look at the Apple / Google duopoly and say "look we have competition! How can you compare this to Microsoft in the 90s!?" The sheer amount of anticompetitive behavior both these companies have done over the years is insane when you put in prospective what Microsoft went to court over.
Many of us saw projects like Firefox grow in the 2000s, giving hope that open source and standards would win out in the end. But we dwindled, lulled by the sweet promises of Chrome and their open core. And just like that we're back to a major corporation controlling large swaths of the web. Makes the future look pretty bleak to be honest.
I don't use a Mac often (mainly Linux), but I do troubleshoot my significant other's. I'll add on my gripes:
- SMB shares are wonky and will randomly disconnect with vague errors.
- A large USB drive formatted with NTFS can't be mounted as read/write natively, you have to pay for a third party tool for that.
- Mac's built in gatekeeper software is inferior to Windows Defender. While there's less malware available, the ones out there can cause havoc and don't get caught.
- lastly, Mac restore process is not as easy as Windows, you can reset a Windows PC in a few clicks. Mac your manually nuking volumes, which for a newbie isn't really friendly.
Had to laugh that he jumped into a paid chat service, I get combining all these services into one app is a way to "solve" this problem, but no one is going to pay $10 a month for it.
Let me preface that I love linux. I use it on 98% of my PCs. But Linux is not for everyone. Honestly it SHOULDN'T be. If you want to be free you have to work for it. You have to understand why your open source community app has less features than commercial apps. You have to weigh the costs versus the benefits. You have to be prepared to fix broken things, including submitting your own patches. Grandma doesn't need Linux. Get her a damn Chromebook.
Many of us saw projects like Firefox grow in the 2000s, giving hope that open source and standards would win out in the end. But we dwindled, lulled by the sweet promises of Chrome and their open core. And just like that we're back to a major corporation controlling large swaths of the web. Makes the future look pretty bleak to be honest.