Quote Originally Posted by kib View Post
Well maybe "language" is a bit self important for what I'm doing! Just my term for knowing how to use specific OS and software and getting it to be compatible.

We are currently a house divided, with DH in the Mac-ro-verse and me PC / Android / WP. Part of me is envious of the Mac world, part of me spent time with MIL in a store with a Genius Bar and thought I'd rather shoot myself than stand there with $17,000 in devices I don't really need and can't fix myself, that aren't doing what was promised. I can do that for $1000 at home!
The Apple Store is the 9th circle of hell. I will never take a computer there ever again. Even though the staff are very nice, the level of noise was horrific. Screaming kids oh my God fortunately, there’s another Mac dealer and fixer not all that far from my old house in the city, so I will go there if needed.

I changed from the PC world to Mac because a few years prior I got iPad mini devices and I use them all the time. Now I have an Apple phone. it all works together.

Of course with someone with your expectations I think you’re gonna be unhappy because the things you take for granted to know how to do you won’t be able to do, but there are other things trades off that are nice.

Macs are better for people like me, kindergarten level users. I have to say it wasn’t terrifically painful to learn what I had to learn, and that was even before I had ChatGPT as my tech advisor. Now I use Chatgpt for everything. I was always able to look up solutions in text form and watch YouTube videos, but the problem with that is that they use terminology and etc., that I didn’t even know what they were talking about. With ChatGPT I can pin down exactly what my question is. Also, Chatgpt knows what device I’m using and what version of the software I’m using and will answer in that context.

So my point is: for kindergarten level users, it wasn’t that painful going from one kindergarten machine to another. I hated Windows 7 anyway. And now with ChatGPT at my fingertips, I feel like I can conquer the world in any Mac thing I need to do.