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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.




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