Some guy I was talking to at a party said:
(about Windows OS) “Ha, it’s pretty dumb that you have to turn off your computer by going to the start menu.
Look, you Apple fanatic, I can see where you’re coming from, but really, no really, where else would you put it?
On a Mac, it’s just called the “Apple menu”. Look.
It’s the same as doing this.
Albeit, there is less “bloat” in Mac than in Windows 10. (I could clean it out, though. Maybe I’ll find some time.)
It’s the same in Linux OSes.
You can’t even complain about how it’s named, either.
The “Start” menu doesn’t even say “Start” on it anymore.
But either way, it’s called the “Start” menu because that’s where you can start things.
Really, all you’re doing is starting the shutdown program.
Even without all of this, you could’ve set the power button to turn off the computer, and avoided saying your little sentence altogether.
“But it’s too easy to accidentally press the power button.”
For how long have you used a Windows machine? This is not a genuine problem if you’ve had the thing for more than a couple of days, unless it’s a real cheap-o compoot. Get comfy with your keyboard config, or “Choose what the power buttons do,” as Windows would say. Set it to hibernate, or something. Modern computers don’t take more than 20 seconds to go into hibernation, and take even less time to start back up (that is, assuming you treat your computer with any amount of decency).
Alright, mini-rant over. The sentence was probably just something the guy read from another Mac user on Facebook. It was really dumb, though, so I had to do a thing on it. Of course, I didn’t say any of this to him. All I said was “…where else would you put it?” rather timidly. He had already walked away before I finished that sentence, though.
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