Question desktop PC’s OS – should I replace Microsoft Windows with Apple’s OS??

[Chrstn12]

(Windows 10, intel i7, RAM 16 GBs)

Hi everyone

I wonder whether anyone could help

I hope this is the right thread.

Desktop computers. After a LONG time using Microsoft Windows, I’m seriously considering ditching it, and using Linux, or Apple.

My question is also about Apple’s OS.

The reason I’ve had enough of Microsoft Windows is that nowadays it actually works against the PC user. With a vengeance.

Recently I started noticing the horrible extent to which Microsoft Windows interferes with my work.

Sometimes is “Antimalware Service Executable”, sometimes is “COM Surrogate”, sometimes is “Microsoft Windows Search Indexer”, sometimes is something else, etc etc. Sometimes two or more Microsoft processes, all at the same time.

Sometimes Task Manager lights up like a Christmas tree.

It has got to the point that sometimes my PC cannot properly function, because of Microsoft Windows’ bloody processes. The very thing (the OS) that actually should help PCs therefore users, now keeps on throwing spanners in my works.

Do Apple’s operating systems suffer from the same problem?? Do Apple’s operating systems, too, torture computers, and computer-users, with processes??

In advance, thank you very much for your help

Christian
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[Lafong]

You may as well be asking about religion A or religion B.

MS/Apple might be even more contentious than Intel/AMD.

It's mostly a question of how willing you might be to climb the learning curve on an entirely new OS....assuming you have no prior experience. If you are sufficiently unhappy with MS, then jump off the train. Only you would know about that.

Apple works well for multi-millions of people, obviously. I haven't touched one in about 25 years.

Ability to upgrade and expense may not much matter to you.

Are you fed up to here or to there?

Beware what zealots might tell you. Internet anecdotes are likely not your friend.

Mac OS on a PC is another layer of complexity you'd have to overcome.

Is the Mac OS on Apple hardware out of the question?

 

[TerryLaze]

You can setup busy hours on windows (change active hours) to tell it when you want it to not do updates and the likes, you can also change a setting to make it focus more on foreground work and not on background. (performance options->advanced)

Mac OS is very difficult to install on a normal PC and very difficult to maintain, it has a lot of issues if you are not running it on a mac.

 

[USAFRet]

Sometimes is “Antimalware Service Executable”, sometimes is “COM Surrogate”, sometimes is “Microsoft Windows Search Indexer”, sometimes is something else, etc etc. Sometimes two or more Microsoft processes, all at the same time.

Sometimes Task Manager lights up like a Christmas tree.

It has got to the point that sometimes my PC cannot properly function, because of Microsoft Windows’ bloody processes. The very thing (the OS) that actually should help PCs therefore users, now keeps on throwing spanners in my works.

Interestingly, none of my 5x Windows systems in the house, either 10 or 11, see this.
None.

 

[Eximo]

I agree, sounds like you are experiencing Windows updates when you are trying to do things. A lot of the processes you are talking about are background tasks to update tasks. Anti-Malware Service Executable is basically new AV definitions and a scan with every update.

Not really something I notice on my home computers. Gaming desktop I make sure to let it do its things before using it, grab new drivers and the like while I am at it. My media PC typically updates when I am not around.