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Generally I stay away from Apple products or topics. The only reason I decided to comment was that I am forced to use Mac in my current work and after several s

by pllbnk 5y ago

Generally I stay away from Apple products or topics. The only reason I decided to comment was that I am forced to use Mac in my current work and after several stints I understood I was not going to get used to it. If people use it and like it, I don't mind. For me, it's just not intuitive; for instance, I wouldn't have thought of looking for this setting, let alone under accessibility options.

bzzzt 5y ago
If you're going to have to use an unfamiliar device it helps to just check out what it can do (e.g. explore the settings) before concluding it sucks ;) I don't really have the patience for silly stuff that annoys me and should/could be trivial to adjust. Just Google something (in this case 'macos disable animations') and you can remove a lot of friction from your daily life.
- sofixa 5y ago
  The problem is that there can be many such "small" things, sometimes with complex solutions ( remapping cmd+tab) or no solution at all ( having different scroll direction between trackpad and mouse. After some time you just get tired and accept the OS isn't for you and you stop fighting it.
  - pllbnk 5y ago
    Exactly how I feel, nice explanation.
- pllbnk 5y ago
  It's not just silly stuff. There is stuff such as Apple Music which opens on the foreground every time I put on Bluetooth headphones and the two ways to stop it are either modify some internal system settings via shell or use another app which closes Apple Music immediately after it opens. Another issue is the fact that whenever I turn on my headphones, if they were connected before laptop went to sleep, it will automatically wake up. Imagine if it was in your backpack and started working there. At one point I had a list of Mac software issues but then I threw it away before I was forced using it again. As another commenter said, there is a threshold of small issues which once they add up is overstepped and then you search and find better options.

by pllbnk 5y ago

bzzzt 5y ago

If you're going to have to use an unfamiliar device it helps to just check out what it can do (e.g. explore the settings) before concluding it sucks ;) I don't really have the patience for silly stuff that annoys me and should/could be trivial to adjust. Just Google something (in this case 'macos disable animations') and you can remove a lot of friction from your daily life.

sofixa 5y ago
The problem is that there can be many such "small" things, sometimes with complex solutions ( remapping cmd+tab) or no solution at all ( having different scroll direction between trackpad and mouse. After some time you just get tired and accept the OS isn't for you and you stop fighting it.
- pllbnk 5y ago
  Exactly how I feel, nice explanation.
pllbnk 5y ago
It's not just silly stuff. There is stuff such as Apple Music which opens on the foreground every time I put on Bluetooth headphones and the two ways to stop it are either modify some internal system settings via shell or use another app which closes Apple Music immediately after it opens. Another issue is the fact that whenever I turn on my headphones, if they were connected before laptop went to sleep, it will automatically wake up. Imagine if it was in your backpack and started working there. At one point I had a list of Mac software issues but then I threw it away before I was forced using it again. As another commenter said, there is a threshold of small issues which once they add up is overstepped and then you search and find better options.