Originally Posted by
nkedel
I don't think it's even a matter of tinkering.
For heavy users, even those who don't modify how the system works, there is a great deal of stuff that happens via patterns of use that are below conscious -- most obviously, literally muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts, but also navigation patterns to do things.
Swapping to a new OS, in that case, is going to be more difficult than a lighter user who just looks for the prompts and has to actually think about what they're doing.
This was one of the problems with Windows 8 -- the whole file explorer got redone, and for most people, that was probably an improvement. For some of us who had been using it the same way for ~18 years since Windows 95, even though there were more keyboard shortcuts, it the old ones didn't work it completely broke flow every time we expected something to happen and it didn't.
I think that this should be understood beyond this specific thread (or FT!). I also hate the new file explorer. I hate the Mac explorer almost as much. I've used MS since well before 95. I'm a heavy user who used to be able to manage networks of dozens of machines using Windows, OS/2, Mac or various flavours of Unix interchangeably. I got paid pretty well for some of this and the rest was just for fun!
NOW, I just want it to WORK! This is all to say that heavy users and those who want to hack the OS and every app are not necessarily the same people.
That said, my MBP vintage 2010 works every. single. time. I woke it up after 8 months of hibernation (when my <1 year old X15 W10 machine gave up) and it took up where it left off without a problem. It hasn't been rebooted since I last upgraded the OS (a couple of versions ago). My X15, on the other hand, is a disaster. I have installed W10 from scratch and it still is a constant struggle.
/rant off.