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Originally Posted by Buehler445
See, I don't have those issues. I have my work rig, a laptop in the sprayer, and that Surface floating around. Then the wife and I have apple phones, kid has an old ipad mini, there is an ipod touch around, and one of our old phones for the kids.
The only maintaining I do on the PCs is whatever automatic updates they have (have them all on W10). The phones seem to work OK, the ipod touch is always having goddamned battery problems, the ipod mini is too old (apparently..  ) to download new apps like YouTube and disney plus. |
"Automatic" updates seems to be the worst part of my experience with Windows here at home. Some of the machines update while you're using them, even if you've set off hours correctly. Some of them don't update at all unless you manually intervene, even if you have automatic updates enabled. At any given time, I might have one machine rebooting in the middle of a school class and another that hasn't been updated in 4 months. The Windows machines constantly require watching or they don't update correctly.
As for your other devices, unfortunately old devices are old devices. Neither iOS nor Windows ages very well after the first 3 or 4 years. Batteries wear out over time, especially if they've been subjected to daily charging for years.
Android ages pretty well because they don't ever release updates. LOL
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Originally Posted by Buehler445
I'm the first to admit that an apple system is really intuitive for baseline use and better for kids. But I appreciate having a damn PC, because somewhere along the line, I became an old man.
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With iOS / iPadOS that's true. Pretty simple and straightforward. I actually started using them though because I switched to MacOS for my personal computing. Still a simple veneer like iOS but Linux/BSD underneath. I also run Linux so it's just easier for me. I've done everything I can to limit my exposure to Windows. Of course, nobody in my house wants to learn anything new when the only upside is less work for dad.
