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It really is. Even if you dont like the macOS GUI, I dont think any reasonable evaluation could call macOS 'crap overall'. Distros like Ubuntu, are excellent,

• smoldesu 5y ago
  > I dont think any reasonable evaluation could call macOS 'crap overall'. Would it not depend on the workload? I hear a lot of web developers and content creators who share this sentiment; fair enough. But there's a number of consumer markets who would indeed drag MacOS for lacking 32-bit support, decent container compatibility or a package manager. It's overall less compatible with software than Windows or even Linux, and if you want to do development outside of the Apple ecosystem or besides the web, getting a proper development environment up and running is an exercise on the treadmill of neverending maintenance. It certainly doesn't look appealing to a gaming crowd or people writing software for Windows (with M1 cross-compiling is dead in the water), it can't do Boot Camp anymore and it's a nightmare for DevOps folks who want to run Docker tests on their laptop. I can understand who likes MacOS and why they'd like it, but if you do anything other than text editing or media encoding for a living then the benefits of using MacOS start to deteriorate very quickly.
  • brailsafe 5y ago
    Ya, but that is still a kind of 1 star until they do x kind of thing. Meanwhile if a macOS fan was to say they think Windows is crap because for some reason they feel the need to re-install the OS every month to solve some inexplicable stability problem, it would probably make a bit more sense. I'm a gamer and have a PC only for that purpose, I don't feel like my mac is crap because it doesn't play some of them.