I was a hardcore windows boy for many many year. Thinking that mac are overpriced fischer price devices for sectarian people. Basically I was perfectly in line with this opinion :

At one point I had a girlfriend that had a similar config on mac, and it just blasted my windows.
Gave mac a try, never looked back since.
Would'nt go back to a Windows under any circumstance, it just beats windows in every way.
And now that windows has become a spyware from hell I guess that bridges are burnt anyway.

 

I can say this: I have had Apple music producers come to me more than once, praising Apple's glory (and the Apple sequencer they're using). To me it seems proactive-defensive.

 

Yeah I should have added Sonoma to the list of OS versions that are forever broken. I'm on it as well and it's just terrible. Very different experience from Ventura which matured and turned out to be a great OS. Not sure how better Sequoia is now... Leave it to Tim and the heads of design to break something that worked great.

 

You can also click on the Recycle Bin properties to delete files immediately.
"Delete files immediately (don't move them to the Recycle Bin)"

When I delete something, the following happens:
"Are you sure you want to permanently delete this file?"

 

I dont have much of a problem with the file explorer. Just takes a sec or two to set it up right. I do use a window manager to keep things tidy and repeatable because they removed that mechanism from the desktop explorer since XP. Even with win7 I had to employ a third party window manager. Without it you have stuff popping up all over the dam place and in the wrong size, etc...

I use CC all the time for the secure erase (the older piriform versions only). The win native search as well is only really good for finding local system specific stuff. If you're looking for something non-system specific (like a file you stored somewhere for instance) the search tool is useless - completely slow and cumbersome. It's been that way since XP. Also the win native search will attempt (unless you make sure it doesn't) to hit the internet which makes no sense since the thing is slow enough on local searches. I have been plopping ultrasearch on all my win builds for doing searches for most stuff. It does what win search should be doing and does it in 1/1000th the time it takes the native search to do almost anything.

 

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Wow, I expected some OS war, but this thread is growing fast, it's mostly off topic now, and not a single comment by our pro expert OP.

 

Come on man, relax. Have a beer, it's on me. This isn't reasoning. I don't agree with some of his points but he's explaining them.

PS. Didn't read the rest of the thread yet