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OSX is great at getting the fuck out of the way and letting you get more work done in my experience (development work).

Shared404 6y ago
I think it's just what you're used to. Put me in front of a Linux desktop, and I can just start working. Put me in front of a Windows desktop, give me 30 minutes to set up what I need, and I can start working. Put me in front of a Mac, and come back to me still yelling at it five hours later. I'm sure I could learn if it was worth the time to me, but I definitely wouldn't argue that it's superior (for me personally at least).
- eitland 6y ago
  Yes it is really individual: I have an ex-colleague who was a linux super-user and awesome sysadmin but moved to Mac for his development laptop. He loved Mac, and couldn't stand the hassle of Linux anymore as far as I understood him. This confused me a lot as even though I wasn't even close to his level at that time I had no problems living with my Linux machines while my Mac laptop used to drive me crazy every day with some nonsense. Turns out it is extremely individual. Maybe it is because I'm a keyboard person. When I work efficiently I feel I rarely touch the touchpad. I use fullscreen a lot, I sometimes use virtual desktops a lot etc.
  - robbyking 6y ago
    Enabling "Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls" makes keyboard navigation much, much easier on macOS.
  - Shared404 6y ago
    You may be on to something with the keyboard idea. I've always used i3/Sway/Pop!_Shell, or just dealt with windows subpar tiling. I'm picky about terminals as well, so that may have something to do with it. Although Mac's shell is nicer than windows (obviously), I can't stand the built in terminal app.
- m463 6y ago
  I think my productivity graphs would look like: | 22 <- linux | 22 | 1111121111 <- macos | 1 22 |1 22 |122 |000000000000 <- windows -------------
m463 6y ago
It has been getting in the way more and more. The only good news would be... if apple decides to "reverse course" questing for non-discerning-consumers, all the "crazy ones" will breathe a sigh of relief and buy a pile of new hardware. I remember when apple gave up on its "apple-inward-looking" powerpc hardware and shipped intel machines. All of a sudden apple machines could run windows too, people could see more possibilities buying apple and the market for apple hardware became much larger very quickly.

I think it's just what you're used to. Put me in front of a Linux desktop, and I can just start working. Put me in front of a Windows desktop, give me 30 minutes to set up what I need, and I can start working. Put me in front of a Mac, and come back to me still yelling at it five hours later. I'm sure I could learn if it was worth the time to me, but I definitely wouldn't argue that it's superior (for me personally at least).

eitland 6y ago
Yes it is really individual: I have an ex-colleague who was a linux super-user and awesome sysadmin but moved to Mac for his development laptop. He loved Mac, and couldn't stand the hassle of Linux anymore as far as I understood him. This confused me a lot as even though I wasn't even close to his level at that time I had no problems living with my Linux machines while my Mac laptop used to drive me crazy every day with some nonsense. Turns out it is extremely individual. Maybe it is because I'm a keyboard person. When I work efficiently I feel I rarely touch the touchpad. I use fullscreen a lot, I sometimes use virtual desktops a lot etc.
- robbyking 6y ago
  Enabling "Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls" makes keyboard navigation much, much easier on macOS.
- Shared404 6y ago
  You may be on to something with the keyboard idea. I've always used i3/Sway/Pop!_Shell, or just dealt with windows subpar tiling. I'm picky about terminals as well, so that may have something to do with it. Although Mac's shell is nicer than windows (obviously), I can't stand the built in terminal app.
m463 6y ago
I think my productivity graphs would look like: | 22 <- linux | 22 | 1111121111 <- macos | 1 22 |1 22 |122 |000000000000 <- windows -------------

m463 6y ago

It has been getting in the way more and more. The only good news would be... if apple decides to "reverse course" questing for non-discerning-consumers, all the "crazy ones" will breathe a sigh of relief and buy a pile of new hardware. I remember when apple gave up on its "apple-inward-looking" powerpc hardware and shipped intel machines. All of a sudden apple machines could run windows too, people could see more possibilities buying apple and the market for apple hardware became much larger very quickly.