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i hate having to look at windows 10 gui

It's certainly not a toyish consumer friendly GUI like macOS. It's there to support legacy apps that corporations have relied on for many many years. It has deep features and power tools that are beyond a Mac's remit. Essential stuff for IT managers, science and the finance industry.

But putting that aside, most professional apps used in the creative industry use their own interfaces and those apps behave identically on macOS and Windows. Except they usually run faster or smoother on the latter.

Anyway, I only usually discuss this stuff with the regulars on Pro forums because they are the ones more interested in app performance instead of the the colour of buttons and shape of corners.
 
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It's certainly not a toyish consumer friendly GUI like macOS. It's there to support legacy apps that corporations have relied on for many many years. It has deep features and power tools that are beyond a Mac's remit. Essential stuff for IT managers, science and the finance industry.

But putting that aside, most professional apps used in the creative industry use their own interfaces and those apps behave identically on macOS and Windows. Except they usually run faster or smoother on the latter.

Anyway, I only usually discuss this stuff with the regulars on Pro forums because they are the ones more interested in app performance instead of the the colour of buttons and shape of corners.
well now that you mentioned, i was going to bring that up but i didn't want to write too much, there many others things to consider besides just GUI , things like performance, security, reliability, responsiveness etc so we need to look at the big picture meaning all those things together "the total package" not just one of those areas, i'm sure you heard of the ransomeware attack that happened to windows a few months ago right, one thing is to get a virus, you can clean it remove with an AV or simply reformat the drive and reinstall a clean new os but having your drive encrypted with your precious data in there is no joke, that means that if you delete you drive you can kiss your data goodbye and since it was encrypted there is no chance for data recovery, something that can easily be done if the person wouldn't get the ransomeware attack. is obvious you like windows and i like mac but if Steve and bill were friends, we can respectfully disagree, just because windows has a bigger market share it doesn't mean that windows is better, i will say that windows pc's are cheaper and that' s why there are so many windows pc out there , you can get a 300 dollar laptop any where, just up to recently is when Microsoft started building and selling a expensive pc's once again copied from apple. i'm sure if macs will cost 300 dollars there will be more macs than windows pc's but since macs are more expensive most people settle for the cheap stuff. me in the opposite i like good expensive stuff as long as they are good, i wouldn't pay 100 dollars for pay less shoes but i will happily pay 100 for a pair of air jordan's
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It's certainly not a toyish consumer friendly GUI like macOS.

haha you are kidding right, the fisher price, lego blocks , tiles menu, man i hate that w10 menu more than anything and you call mac os a toyish consumer friendly GUI. you are hilarious

let me ask you it is a tablet or a pc, windows bloatware, why do i need tablet components on a windows pc, don't you think all that is totally unnecessary on a windows pc, all those unnecessary services running that slow down the pc

tablets settings on a pc, really

windows 10 is a joke, no i don't like w10 spying on me that's why i don't use it
i didn't like it when it was free and i like it much less now that microsoft is selling that disastrous os

w10 is a toy os

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They should use the Windows 10 update model and keep the OS constantly fresh and updated to latest APIs and optimisations. macOS very rarely has updated driver optimisations after the beta stage and many months after. As for APIs..behind Linux.
You can't directly compare operating systems like that. There are many factors, unique to each operating system, that makes any such comparison pointless. Linux, for example, tends to make use of only APIs provided by the open source community, while Apple has their own proprietary APIs, as well as everything being BSD-based, with the BSD layer having its own unique APIs. Then there's the Mach kernel stuff, but that's another story. Each operating system essentially does the same thing, but from the perspective of a developer, they are worlds apart (although macOS and Linux are at least on the same planet).
 
If I use recovery or internet recovery, will it be installing High Sierra or just Sierra?

My goal is to reinstall High Sierra since I'm having weird issues with systems preferences not sticking (keyboard backlight setting for example, resets every reboot).
 
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