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Would you mind expanding on what does MacOS provide to the user category you describe that e.g. Linux+GNOME doesn't?

• kitsunesoba 5y ago
  A starting point would be to stop trying to eliminate menubars and awkwardly sweeping the remaining unremovable menus into “junk drawer” hamburger menus. Under macOS the menubar is a huge boon for a few reasons: - It improves discoverability for any given app’s functionality immensely, as the menubar acts as a universal searchable index of functions - It provides an easy way to see the key shortcuts for any function - It provides a hook-point for the system to allow the user to set custom key shortcuts for any menu item in any app, even if the app’s developer never provided that capability GNOME is pretty great in a lot of ways but its phobia of menus can be grating as a power user.
  • aulin 5y ago
    I mostly agree. But that's only true for the very small subset of GNOME's own applications for which the little set of actions provided by the hamburger menu is enough. I doubt they ever had the strength to push for a osx-style global menubar (or this hamburger menu thing) for the whole desktop. Too much fragmentation, too many toolkits, too many partners pushing their own user experience.
  • ComputerGuru 5y ago
    It’s so sad that none of these complaints used to be applicable to Gnome and GTK.