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Pretty much any time there’s a viable alternative to a Microsoft product, I find the alternative to be a breath of fresh air. There’s something about Windows so
by macintux 6y ago
Pretty much any time there’s a viable alternative to a Microsoft product, I find the alternative to be a breath of fresh air. There’s something about Windows software in general that makes me feel like I’m in a prison camp relative to good macOS applications.
OmniGraffle vs Visio. Keynote vs PowerPoint. Numbers vs Excel.
- qubex 6y agoI know precisely what you’re referring to. I used to call it the “Cocoa Smell” when I’d come across an application designed for OS X’s native APIs and not some port of something more or less haphazard. I suppose now they’re more varied (SwiftUI or whatever the technology of the day may be), but there’s a distinct “this is native” vibe from certain alternative applications that doesn’t emanate from others.
- sukilot 6y agoYour comment boils down to "whenever there's a better alternative, I like the better alternative better." Then again, Google Apps is a viable alternative to MS Office, and fresh air it is not.