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Great. Well I'm not pushing the update icon that's been waiting on me for a few days. If Copilot is invasive and can't be turned off, I may finally jump ship.
I’ve only owned windows machines… well since my first DOS machine in the 90s. I made the switch to Mac after hearing about the embedded Ads in 11.
I’m sure there are many more going to Linux.
Apple's making it easy these days. Mac Minis are cheap and more than enough computer for 95% of people's tasks, while also using sipping watts. I'm on a M4 Mac Mini and it's using 3.91 watts right now. I've run it at full tilt for extended periods of time and I barely heard the fan. It even runs BG3 somehow.
That said, the power button being on the bottom is dumb but not a real issue. MacOS's assumption that you're going to be using a trackpad is annoying for those of us with nice mice. Actually, MacOS is just annoying in a lot of ways. I get that the bumpers are there to keep people from causing long lines at Genius Bars, but I wish there were just a single button that I could hit that tell the machine I know my way around a *nix and don't need to be babied at every turn.