I have not had any serious issues since XP with the exception of a brief stint with Vista, which eventually corrected itself and was minor anyway. I am a film editor.
No, not some script kiddie who sits in Starbucks with a laptop.
I use the "big iron".
PS: XP wasn't terrible, it's just that 32 bit sucks, which is why I never understood why people thought
the old Final Cut was so great, it was 32 bit all the way till they rolled out Final Cut X and meanwhile
applications on both PC and Linux had been 64-bit top to bottom for six years already.
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To play devil's advocate for a moment
(because I do not "hate" Apple) one of the reasons Apple users love Apple
so much is because Apple does not allow hardly anything that is not inside their "walled garden".
It's like the old Ma Bell "Telephone Company" before the Carterphone decision and before the breakup.
Back then ALL Bell System equipment was Western Electric and no outside gear was allowed.
This enabled Ma Bell to exercise 100% quality control, much the way Apple gets to do.
Life in PC world is nothing like that, you can get any hardware from any company and use any software you like.
But the result is, if people don't know what they're doing, they may get burned.
Back in the very early days of PC based nonlinear video editing, most companies had a template or blueprint that
stated which hardware and software was certified to run.
For example, if you had an AVID system on Windows, AVID told you what hardware you had to use, NO exceptions, and
the early AVID software simply would not even start or run if your hardware wasn't exactly as specified.
Thus all AVID workstations were consistent, just as Apple is today.
Same with Pinnacle. A Pinnacle Systems editing workstation was built according to certified specs and Pinnacle wouldn't even boot up if something was configured wrong or hardware was not exactly as specified.
Along about maybe 2000 or so a lot of other companies began to loosen the restrictions, you could run Adobe Premiere on almost any laptop or desktop machine. It might not run particularly well on an underpowered rig but it did run.
The big joke among power users is the PC "mininum system requirements" to run a particular piece of software.
I use DaVinci Resolve and Sony Vegas the most for editing and both of them claim you only need 2GB of RAM.
Yeah, right!
But I imagine tons of people try to run stuff using that typical MSR profile and then they wonder why it crashes.
My old flamethrower never hiccups...ever.
And I haven't even had a virus or malware attack in...something like twenty years.
Worst I've ever experienced is a couple of browser hijack exploits, which were easily removed.
I appreciate Apple's "it just works" approach but that's if you don't know how to build.
I used to build a lot but in the last ten years I just pay someone who's even better to do it for me instead.
I do know what I need but I can't see well enough to read the microscopic crap on the circuit boards anymore and wiring that stuff up is a huge PITA for me, so I pay someone else to go blind doing it instead.