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My impression is that macOS itself is mostly as solid as ever. But the built-in apps are, with a few exceptions, just not built for people like me anymore. I'm

My impression is that macOS itself is mostly as solid as ever. But the built-in apps are, with a few exceptions, just not built for people like me anymore. I'm basically fine with this for now. It means that as a poweruser I get a rock solid OS on which I can run all the third party software I need to make it suit my needs. Still I feel as though macOS is slowly degrading, whereas Windows has been slowly improving. Even basic stuff like window management is better on stock Windows these days than on stock macOS. macOS had such a big lead 10 years ago, but it's been decreasing over time for a while now. I'm still going to buy a 16" MacBook Pro as my personal device when they come out later this year, but I feel like at the current rate there's a decent chance it might be my last Mac.

GekkePrutser 5y ago
I feel the same way. Windows is catering more and more to power users, whereas Apple seems to be catering more and more to iOS users. Windows got powershell, WSL, now with Windows 11 it's getting a very basic tiling window manager! Real innovation on the serious user side. If only Microsoft were a bit better privacy-wise (allowing to disable telemetry etc) I really miss this kind of direction on Mac.
jtdev 5y ago
> "Windows has been slowly improving" ... Are you referring to the Microsoft product Windows? If so, have you used Windows lately? I use it occasionally when required to work on .NET projects built on pre-.NET Core, and I can say unequivocally Windows is a dumpster fire of epic proportion in comparison to MacOS.
- Scharkenberg 5y ago
  > a dumpster fire of epic proportion Funnily enough, that's how I've been feeling about macOS lately, ever since they dropped support for 32-bit applications and especially from 11.0 onward.
robertoandred 5y ago
How are you supposed to manage windows on Windows when it still can’t distinguish applications and their windows?

GekkePrutser 5y ago

I feel the same way. Windows is catering more and more to power users, whereas Apple seems to be catering more and more to iOS users. Windows got powershell, WSL, now with Windows 11 it's getting a very basic tiling window manager! Real innovation on the serious user side. If only Microsoft were a bit better privacy-wise (allowing to disable telemetry etc) I really miss this kind of direction on Mac.

jtdev 5y ago

> "Windows has been slowly improving" ... Are you referring to the Microsoft product Windows? If so, have you used Windows lately? I use it occasionally when required to work on .NET projects built on pre-.NET Core, and I can say unequivocally Windows is a dumpster fire of epic proportion in comparison to MacOS.

Scharkenberg 5y ago
> a dumpster fire of epic proportion Funnily enough, that's how I've been feeling about macOS lately, ever since they dropped support for 32-bit applications and especially from 11.0 onward.

robertoandred 5y ago

How are you supposed to manage windows on Windows when it still can’t distinguish applications and their windows?