Even so, the more Windows machines I had back in the day, the less real work I got done. Something was always not working, with no obvious pattern. Most problems took work to fix.

I learned not to install and uninstall things. Even if I needed to.

The more Mac’s I had, the more likely I ran into a problem as well. But it was usually just some glitch.

Some of us remember the 90s-00s era of debugging non-tech family & friends windows machines for various critical ailments with great frequency until they all switched to Macs.

>Some of us remember the 90s-00s era of debugging non-tech family & friends windows machines for various critical ailments with great frequency until they all switched to Macs.

I second this. My mom switched to a iMac G4 and never needed me again, except that time she plugged the power strip into itself.

It got to the point where I didn't want to tell people I worked with computers.

Nor was Windows in the 95/98/Me era, it was a Hobson's choice back then.

They were stable enough and the plug and play actually worked.

And yet people kept buying windows and whining about it many versions of OS X later.