> Back in time when things were easy, things “just worked” right out of the box and you did not have to configure much

To which my comment makes a number of counter points. You had to configure a lot. And things rarely just worked. And if they worked, they were rarely consistent.

The article is an interesting read, but on nearly every point of it, I prefer today’s computers to any of the past. The exception being his point about apps requiring internet access and being generally hard to keep in multiple copy form.

The vast majority of the article is talking about specific ways in which they were better, but HN has latched on to the "just works" and decided to dredge up everything from IRQ conflicts (a thing on PCs, while the article mostly talks about MacOS) to every software bug they ever encountered because they like being contrarian.