>> They are already way outside of rational territory and deep into religious territory
> Until it works for everyone it's just not good enough.
You are pretty well proving the GP point. There is no system that works for everyone. Windows can be very challenging to get up and running on hardware setups that are not the most common.
> Windows and MacOS don't make people do that
False. And it's funny that this is about sound drivers. I have a piece of older but perfectly working Roland audio/MIDI equipment that uses USB drivers that are no longer supported on modern MacOS. How did I get it working? By compiling a fucking driver the other day. (And yes it works perfectly out of the box on any Linux kernel for the past 20 years).
Now go ahead and move the goalposts about older hardware not mattering or some nonsense. This hasn't been the only frustration with MacOS. It took these clowns the better part of a year to fix VLAN configuration in the network setup window. The only way to configure them for a lot of hardware was to drop down to the command line - so much for working for everyone.
> Until it works for everyone it's just not good enough.
You are pretty well proving the GP point. There is no system that works for everyone. Windows can be very challenging to get up and running on hardware setups that are not the most common.
> Windows and MacOS don't make people do that
False. And it's funny that this is about sound drivers. I have a piece of older but perfectly working Roland audio/MIDI equipment that uses USB drivers that are no longer supported on modern MacOS. How did I get it working? By compiling a fucking driver the other day. (And yes it works perfectly out of the box on any Linux kernel for the past 20 years).
Now go ahead and move the goalposts about older hardware not mattering or some nonsense. This hasn't been the only frustration with MacOS. It took these clowns the better part of a year to fix VLAN configuration in the network setup window. The only way to configure them for a lot of hardware was to drop down to the command line - so much for working for everyone.