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I'm actually on Win 10 home, since that's what my laptop came with and I never bothered to change it. You can defer upgrades by setting your settings to be on a mobile network. In that way they NEVER download automatically, since it could mean extra charges due to the mobile traffic. It works on LAN or wifi. It's indeed a weird way to toggle the option, but it for sure works and does its job. Most of these things you can easily google and find solutions for. Saying win 10 is the biggest turd in the world is just being unnecessarily extreme and it's simply wrong. It's the most "overall" functional OS with a great balance of what it lets you do. It supports the most amount of software and hardware and is generally reliable if you set it up correctly. If you are setting up a sever, then sure - go with linux. But for normal/power user, windows is usually the way to go. On macOS, there are a huge number of elementary settings that you must go out of your way to toggle by using recovery terminal, using extra apps (of which some are paid), or just not being able to access some setting at all - like scroll smoothing. To do an elementary thing like stopping scroll and mouse smoothing you need to go out of your way. I'm just going to refuse to play dumb by calling one OS crappy versus the other who is a godsent, or whatever. Both OSs are good in many ways and can be bad in other ways. Globally, windows is used by 70-90% of users, depending on region. That's not random. Linux is free, if windows was the biggest 'turd', then maybe figure out why linux is not the one in those %, or even mac. macOS is more like up to 13%. Yeah, macs are expensive and then one day you decide to buy one and your USB is completely broken, and your machine overheats from using google chrome.

I've never had forced restarts on windows 10. That's a thing you can toggle off. For your network adapter, that's weird but it's nothing I've heard as a common issue. The GPU issues - that sounds like a bad GPU, I've never had problems with my GPUs on windows over 15+ years unless they were going bad, and on laptops it's common to stay on the specific drivers your machine comes with (unlike desktop). Using any other driver than the one your laptop manufacturer provided is technically a risk, even though I've done this on my laptop and have no problems. About the monitor, I could go on a tangent about how many issues I've had with my monitor on the mac, which works absolutely perfectly on Windows. Simply setting refresh rate can be an utter pain to achieve without extra software that can create custom resolutions. Sometimes the mac simply decides it will not provide the option for refresh rate. Here I am sitting @60Hz on a monitor that can do 180Hz. I had to fiddle for hours until I set that monitor to work correctly. "Plug and play", right? In my experience windows has been much more "plug and play", especially now, when my macbook is "plug and randomly drop connection". I'd never resort to gaming on linux, though. That's too much extra work, although I respect the choice if anyone wants to do that. Can't think of a better system to game on other than windows - there just isn't one, unless you really enjoy consoles. This has gone quite a bit offtopic - the main point was to point out the ridiculous USB issues of the brand new mac. I appreciate that you like macOS - as I do too in many ways, but the idea is to point out a specific issue of 2020 models that could potentially be widespread. I guarantee you that there aren't many users who are OK with buying defective products at such a high price and just "dealing with it". If that's your philosophy, then so be it, but it sounds like a very masochistic philosophy to me, especially if it's about your own hard-earned money and what you get in return.

I have not had such issues on my windows 10 laptop, man. Both OSs have their advantages and disadvantages but right now Catalina is the actually buggy one, not windows 10. Not to mention Big Sur, but at least that's not actually released. Catalina also dropped 32 bit support, which windows has no plans of doing anytime soon and can still run 32bit software (which some people do need). If you believe it's more consumer friendly to not have 32 bit vs to have it, sure, but I personally don't see the value in that. In fact, I would go back to Mojave on the 2020 MBP if it was fully supported. Feel free to go and check how many issues people have with Catalina on mac forums. My win 10 experience is more than reliable, I can't think of a single thing that is really problematic to an extend where I would call it "broken-ass". Give an example if you want to, i'm running the latest build it's smooth sailing, everything I have works, the OS never crashes and my apps are stable as usual. While there are still a bunch of people regretting upgrading to Catalina and continuing to struggle with issues that they didn't have before. Especially people that used specific production software and had a lot of projects that went buggy afterwards, and so on. It took months for the OS to stabilize after release and win 10 is mature and reliable, has been for years save for a few bad updates but nothing too dramatic (I've had only one bad experience with updating over the last 2 years and it was a bug that got fixed quickly).

Doesn't change the fact that you got sold a defective machine that you can't use to its full potential without facing reliability issues. I also use the mac in my bed, but also for music production on my desk. I need the audio card and mouse to work when I do that. Having to randomly restart a mac is ridiculous. For some users this happens every hour, or even more often. I wish people would get more mad over this because it's just a rip-off to get sold such defective equipment at such high prices and just brush it off under the rug.

If you are within the window of returning, I would return it! This is a huge issue - obviously bigger for some users than others. Many people depend on their devices being reliable and this kind of a problem creates a massive liability. Imagine being a DJ and playing live, and all of your USB controllers and devices randomly losing connection. Or if you are playing a game and your mouse and KB just die. It's a problem that not even the cheapest laptops have. What is even more offensive is that we are now getting some user reports that sent the laptops for service get responses from Apple claiming "Usb hubs are not supported". Their own, official Apple hubs are also affected by this problem. I think the issue is BEGGING for some publicity because a lot of people will buy into the new models without knowing the potential danger. Just read the reddit thread, we have daily new reports from new users. Some are finding out way after buying the machines because they didn't use USB 2.0 devices early on. I hope LTT will consider investigating this and making a video because it is definitely going to save some people from buying defective machines while Apple refuses to acknowledge the problem. Kind of reminds of the butterfly keyboard problem, doesn't it?

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LTT, I invite you to cover or at least test for this issue if you are able to do so. No youtube channel of any considerable size has covered it so far and people need to know that this very serious problem/defect can happen to them and re-consider bying 2020 macbook models. You can also just google "2020 macbook usb issue" and find articles from various sites, including techradar, forbes, macrumors, appleinsider, tomsguide, and so on. There is a very in-depth explanation in this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/gp5b1z/usb_20_issues_on_new_macbook_pro_13_2020/ The problem has happened to a ton of users using ALL kinds of USB-C hubs, including Apple's own ones, and all kinds of USB 2.0 devices - keyboards, mice, sound cards, external drives - you name it. If it's USB 2.0 - it is highly likely to be affected. It is not known if the issue occurs on a truly massive scale, but time will tell and complaints continue appearing in user threads. It is not known if the problem is related to hardware, or software, but we know that macOS Big Sur has no fix for it. We have not heard ANY kind of statement from Apple as to whether a fix is worked on, or if it can be fixed by software at all. I have personally experienced this and Apple are currently denying the defect! I spoke with support and they threw sand in my eyes, claiming it's "not a problem with the macbook, but something else". In my location we only have "authorized premium service" - no real apple shops, and the authorized service claimed they found no issue. But you can find dozens of articles from the last month covering this defect, and a lot of user threads in various forums like reddit, macrumors, apple's own support forums, and so on. Here is a quote from a reddit comment with a good summary of the problem: