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The worst part of it is that despite all this, Apple still has the least frustrating desktop experience overall, at least for the casual user who needs things to "just work", because the bar is plummeting that fast. Especially when looking at Windows.

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AI will soon make this difference (if it even exists) irrelevant.

How will AI change this situation? I don't catch your drift.

The only thing I can imagine is that both Apple and Microsoft will bog down the desktop equally in AI garbage, to the point where both are approximately equally unusable.

Briefly, with an example: instead of going through menus looking for the option you need, you can just tell the AI (with a voice command) what you want to do. At that point it does not matter who has the nicest menus.

Advanced users are already seeing this. You don't need HandBrake anymore. You can just use ffmpeg directly and ChatGPT will tell you the command line arguments.

> you can just tell the AI (with a voice command) what you want to do

Hard no. Not happening.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2025/10/16/makin...

Apple will follow along

> you can just tell the AI (with a voice command) what you want to do

I would rather stop using computers all together.

In that both Windows and Mac will be equally shit?

AI features that nobody has actually asked for is a big contributor to the overall suckiness of Win11 right now.

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