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I agree macOS is better. It does have issues and bugs, but in my experience, there are far fewer annoyances with macOS than with Windows. It's a little hard to
by newscracker 10y ago
I agree macOS is better. It does have issues and bugs, but in my experience, there are far fewer annoyances with macOS than with Windows. It's a little hard to point things out, but Windows does get in the way many a times while using it. It's also the overall quality of applications that run on Windows that make for a poorer experience. Third party apps on macOS tend to be a lot better and nicer.
If there's one part where I like Windows and Windows applications a lot more than macOS, it's in the support of keyboard shortcuts (like all the Alt+ or Ctrl+ combinations). The apps as well as OS on macOS severely lack in keyboard shortcut support and depend more on a mouse or trackpad. I know I can define my own shortcuts for application/system menu items in macOS easily, but that's a big chore to do.
All the praise of macOS aside, I avoid Apple's own apps for anything where I need longer term availability. Take iWork for example. I never use it for anything that's not a throwaway project. Apple could, at any point in time, just decide that it's not worth it, junk support for all the files you've created (in its proprietary format) and then start afresh. So I use LibreOffice for all my longer term spreadsheet needs. Or Thunderbird for mail (and so on). The shelf life of Apple's own applications and their proprietary formats and cryptic file organization systems are relatively much shorter compared to FOSS offerings or even Microsoft's offerings. Apple's consumer side iLife apps also have hit some people hard in the past with data corruption and data loss (IIRC, iPhoto was notorious for that). Since I don't upgrade my hardware every few years, these factors hit me harder on the Mac side.
Linux is a lot more time consuming to manage for me (even though I'm fairly tech savvy). But a good combination of UI (looks, readability, fonts), usability along with perfect hardware support would be a great thing to have.
- thomastjeffery 10y ago> a good combination of UI (looks, readability, fonts) In my experience, Linux has this. Especially fonts. IMHO, fonts in Linux are slightly better than OS X, and worlds ahead of Windows. As far as UI, it depends what you want. There are a lot of options, and some of them look fantastic, some of them are very usable, and some fall into both categories.