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As opposed to what?

Linux barely has functioning wifi, bluetooth, audio, and video, and Windows also has countless utilities to decrapify the OS. It's not specific to Mac just a different flavor.

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How long has it been since you used a Linux distro? Fedora has had all those things functioning out of the box for many, many years (at least 10+ for wifi, audio, video, 5+ for bluetooth), as has plenty of other distros. And if you think you have to decrapify your linux install, then you're probably using the wrong distro for you. There are plenty (most) that don't crapify.

i don't agree with most of the above comment but they did specifically call out windows as the OS that needs the crap extracted

Agreed. I see a lot of people upset at Apple coming up short on many basic things, but I was a Windows user for decades and found that to increasingly be the case with Windows as well. I wonder if people simply have higher expectations from Apple because of its "polished" presentation. Windows is known to be less polished but (used to) be more easily customizable and less of a walled garden (imo all that's changing now so there's really no reason to use Windows any more). People are cool with Windows being less polished because its understood that you're supposed to make it your own.

After ClassicStartMenu and a number of other important utilities being flagged by Windows Defender or simply not working anymore and after start bar advertisements and un-overrideable keyboard shortcuts to open the Windows Store I didn't see what Windows had left to offer besides legacy compatibility

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