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I'm with you. I think the best user experience for a home or work desktop is Windows. the best user experience for technical work is Linux. I want to use Window

I'm with you. I think the best user experience for a home or work desktop is Windows. the best user experience for technical work is Linux. I want to use Windows and have a clean way to do my work in Linux from there. the new Linux subsytem in Windows seems like it might actually be possible. until then I use osx which gets me ok user experience and pretty good work experience. it's a decent compromise

nindalf 10y ago
In what way does Windows offer a superior user experience than macOS? Certainly more games are available for Windows and that's a key feature for many. Are there any other advantages? I've used both and I appreciate a few things macOS gets right - installing and uninstalling applications is copy and delete, which is simple. Most applications have a consistent look and feel.
- flukus 10y ago
  > installing and uninstalling applications is copy and delete, which is simple It's still black magic to most people. As for user experience, I've never liked OSX, it never clicked with me. I find the menu bar at the top especially confusing, I run apps side by side a lot.
- WayneBro 10y ago
  > installing and uninstalling applications is copy and delete Half the time. The other half you get an installer. The Mac OS just got the ability to resize windows by every edge or corner within the past decade. However, you still cannot disable an external monitor without physically turning it off or installing some third-party software to manage it for you. My point is that Windows has tons of similar features that the Mac OS simply does not have. Beyond the features themselves, Windows has a superior UI. The global menu bar in the Mac OS is terrible. The dock is terrible. Window management is terrible. What's left? Oh, the finder. That's terrible too. These are things that everybody complains about over and over again so I offer you no reasoning here for my opinion. The only thing that Macs have going for them is that they are UNIX and you can build iOS apps with them. That's it. And that's why Macs have a 5% marketshare despite killer marketing.

nindalf 10y ago

In what way does Windows offer a superior user experience than macOS? Certainly more games are available for Windows and that's a key feature for many. Are there any other advantages? I've used both and I appreciate a few things macOS gets right - installing and uninstalling applications is copy and delete, which is simple. Most applications have a consistent look and feel.

flukus 10y ago
> installing and uninstalling applications is copy and delete, which is simple It's still black magic to most people. As for user experience, I've never liked OSX, it never clicked with me. I find the menu bar at the top especially confusing, I run apps side by side a lot.
WayneBro 10y ago
> installing and uninstalling applications is copy and delete Half the time. The other half you get an installer. The Mac OS just got the ability to resize windows by every edge or corner within the past decade. However, you still cannot disable an external monitor without physically turning it off or installing some third-party software to manage it for you. My point is that Windows has tons of similar features that the Mac OS simply does not have. Beyond the features themselves, Windows has a superior UI. The global menu bar in the Mac OS is terrible. The dock is terrible. Window management is terrible. What's left? Oh, the finder. That's terrible too. These are things that everybody complains about over and over again so I offer you no reasoning here for my opinion. The only thing that Macs have going for them is that they are UNIX and you can build iOS apps with them. That's it. And that's why Macs have a 5% marketshare despite killer marketing.