I think that Apple might be worse, but Microsoft gets more of the blame because it has much more usage. To be fair to MS, they stole all of their ideas from Apple, so maybe Apple deserves more blame than they're getting.
Anybody who used "classic Mac OS" (before OS X) can tell you that it was even more cryptic and hid more from the user than Windows did. It didn't usually break, but when it did, you just reformat and re-install.
Now now, it's not fair to say things like 'MS stole all their ideas from Apple' without saying 'both of them stole all their ideas from Xerox PARC'…but mostly the good ones. But anyhow, that's old hat and both companies have been iterating on their own platforms for ages since those days and each operating system has mutated into its own particular beast.
Anybody who used “classic Mac OS” (before OS X) can tell you that it was even more cryptic and hid more from the user than Windows did. It didn’t usually break, but when it did, you just reformat and re-install.
Sounds like my baby steps when I first started using Ubuntu and would spam sudo. Tho I had some cultural baggage from Windows about having to be an admin to do anything.
I think that Apple might be worse, but Microsoft gets more of the blame because it has much more usage. To be fair to MS, they stole all of their ideas from Apple, so maybe Apple deserves more blame than they're getting.
Anybody who used "classic Mac OS" (before OS X) can tell you that it was even more cryptic and hid more from the user than Windows did. It didn't usually break, but when it did, you just reformat and re-install.
Now now, it's not fair to say things like 'MS stole all their ideas from Apple' without saying 'both of them stole all their ideas from Xerox PARC'…but mostly the good ones. But anyhow, that's old hat and both companies have been iterating on their own platforms for ages since those days and each operating system has mutated into its own particular beast.
Sounds like my baby steps when I first started using Ubuntu and would spam
sudo. Tho I had some cultural baggage from Windows about having to be an admin to do anything.