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Mac OS 26 Is Utter Garbage and Apple Has truly lost its way....

Yes - what Jobs once said about Microsoft is still true - "they have no taste"...

All the useless bloat - not necessarily ads, but useless Micosoft's own stuff and above all Copilot. Microsoft is shoving its' own AI solution down the throats much more aggressively then Apple does. It does not end with this actually - fundamental security fails like Recall and the fact that Home version does not have a Bitlocker. It is just like version of macOS which would not have Filevault.

As one working in IT field and being constantly dealing with both Mac and Windows machines... yes Windows has come a long way since Vista, but there's actually nothing compelling in Windows than better integration to enterprise infrastructure and applications not available for Mac. After Apple ditched Intel, Microsoft have been forced to do significant catch-up and considering their size and legacy bloat, it is not easy for them... and even after this they still have "no taste" - even compared to "Solarium UI" a.k.a. Liquid Glass.

P. S. And don't forget after all - what does Windows 10/11 Settings window remind you of by its' layout?
 
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I am sorry but I disagree with you, I am so disappointed in Windows 11. If you do not customize it you literally see adds in the Start Menu, it's very bad. Pushing CoPilot is also bad. I went to a lot of trouble just to customize the install.wim and remove all of the crap Microsoft throws in there in order to get a clean install. This is difficult for the regular user. Also the design of Windows is just ugly. Don't get me started about the Nvidia drivers. I constantly had to tune my Windows just to keep it in a good working condition. In contrast a Mac is a joy to use. I really used only Windows and Android for the last 3 years and it feels good to be back with Apple. That's my honest opinion. Everyone with his own preference. I feel a relief being back to Apple, they evolved quite a lot during these 3 years I was out.
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No need to be sorry. I don’t see any ads, but during intial OS setup I was careful not to blindly click “yes” to everything. Apple does the same thing on macOS and iOS under "Apple Delivered Advertising". it’s just buried deeper in the settings, which arguably makes it worse for users who aren’t paying attention.

I’ve had zero driver issues on MS Windows 11, aside from needing Boot Camp drivers for my now dual OS Windows 11 iMac. But let’s be real, try running macOS on non-Apple hardware and see how far you get.

Copilot is genuinely impressive. It’s a productivity/learning booster, not just a gimmick.

As for design. totally subjective. If you like LiquidGlass, great. Personally, I think it’s a step backward in its current form.

Microsoft’s products feel solid and well-integrated. Meanwhile, judging by Apple’s recent track record, I wouldn’t be surprised if the upcoming macOS and iOS updates flop too, and they will fail to fix many fundamental bugs reported on these forums. Even their employees seem to have doubts: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/19/ios-26-4-revamped-siri-concerns/
 
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Quicktime tends to freeze here and there forcing me to quit it. Specially when it's playing very large files. It does it when you try to scrub forward or back. iMac M3 24gb RAM.
 
Bro it's new normal to have cmd+opt+esc and activity monitor as your best friend these days, can't have more than few days of uptime before windowserver s..hits it self and animations start to stutter, control center non stop eats ram for some reason (even though i don't use it) and having to force quit xcode few times a day to regain 10s gbs of ram...
Back on Mojave I could have a month of uptime and it still felt like freshly booted system...
 
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cmd+ctrl+n , one of the best finder features - broken since ventura, deadlocks the finder and force quit we go again...
 
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