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Originally Posted by Sr. Mints
I'm sick to death of ####ing around with Windows for the last 15 years. I'm not an Apple fanboy, but y'know, I've not once had to screw with OSX and the settings on my Macs to get them to work.
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Change is afoot on this front though - the Metro apps are fully sandboxed, not unlike what you see on iOS devices - app installation and removal is simply adding or deleting the app. They can't munge up the guts of the OS.
I'm sure the legacy side (on desktop and the Intel tablet version) will have its usual quirks and foibles.
That being said, OS X has its fair share of problems - I'd say Windows 7 is on par with OS X for stability, and there are definitely sick OS X systems out there. I've run into a number of weird edge cases with issues you should never have to think about, like a machine that persistently has problems with the boot time dynamic linker cache that leads to slow memory leaks and eventual hangs - troubleshooting stuff like that on the Mac is just as vexing as on Windows, and maybe more so because a far smaller percentage of the user base knows how to delve into the logs or understands the underlying architecture well enough to contribute to the online conversations.