New computer day here, for me. Always kind of a pain in the ass.
I loathe that day. I will try to avoid it for as long as I can. Are you going with a PC or Mac?
I've always PC's and Android phones. Can't quite figure out Apple products.
I despise the iPhone. I have one issued by work, and it drives me nuts.
I have the option of using using my personal Android for work, but they have to BYOD it and then it could easily end up qualifying for some yahoo's Public Information Request. Not going there.
I never owned a Mac until after the turn of the century. I was mostly a software application developer from 1990 to 2018, and that world was owned by Microsoft and Intel. So I have vast amounts of Windows experience and knowledge. Macs are fun when I'm in creative mode, where figuring things out is part of the process, and I've gotten pretty good at using them. But for the daily routine, I don't want to have to figure out the eccentricities of MacOS. If I'd only ever used Macs, those wouldn't be eccentricities, and it would be Windows that would require figuring things out. It is what it is.
The last several jobs I've had, a MacBook has been an option. Just not an option I've gone with. Without fail, my MacBook colleagues always run into issues. Why would I choose that?
It never ceases to amaze me how people can f**k up a computer, in ways that I can't possibly reconstruct what they did. I'll ask them what they were doing, and they'll say, "I was trying to open a Word document on the desktop." And in my head, I'm like, "How could they possibly get from trying to open a file on the desktop to installing a device driver for a device they don't have?" It boggles the mind.
MacOS does a pretty good job keeping people out of trouble most of the time. But it can't stop everything, and it's essentially Unix, so when someone does manage to mess it up, it gets megaborked.
