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eames
May 9, 2009

I'm in a similar situation.

If you're going to build a mid-tier desktop PC then you might want to consider using hackintosh-compatible parts. It won't cost much more and gives you the option of triple-booting macOS in addition to Win10 and Linux if that's your thing.

Other than that I don't have much to add to the discussion yet. I've stopped using their cloud services in an effort to take one step out of the ecosystem but still use macOS for as long as my 15" retina marches on.

Windows 10 is nowhere near as bad as 8.0 was and Surface hardware is nice, but I'm not looking forward to lose the unix base and go back to antivirus programs, corrupted registries and DLL-hell. I do like that Windows is going to support bromium-like microvirtualisation and Microsoft is definitely improving in my eyes.
Linux would be my top choice on paper but the desktop user experience is so extremely inconsistent compared to all other operating systems.

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eames
May 9, 2009

You should install Ubuntu on it. :v:

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