“It’s actually been increasing for quite a few years and long before Windows 8.”
Vista was the final straw for me. Macs are fine, but Linux was cheaper.
Vista was the killer for me, too. Switched to Mac instead of getting a new PC, and never regretted it.
Once you go Mac, you can’t go back.
“Vista was the final straw for me. Macs are fine, but Linux was cheaper.”
Linux was cheap if you can’t otherwise sell that time in IT for more. Trying to get a machine that worked with the latest hardware up and running with Linux was always a pain, along with constant rewrites of core pieces of the operating system that fixed some bugs and introduced others.
At the beginning of this month I gave it up and bought a Mac Mini. My computer just works now, and I have access to a shell and terminal when I need it. I’m in the middle of working on a minimal viable product for a startup instead of messing around with configuration files, wondering why X won’t start.