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As someone who uses both, I have to say I am not sure what's so special about the 'macOS experience'. I mean the desktop is not even a decent window manager imo

by Matl 4y ago

As someone who uses both, I have to say I am not sure what's so special about the 'macOS experience'. I mean the desktop is not even a decent window manager imo, I have to get something like PathFinder for a decent file manager etc, yes there are some nice apps for macOS but it's not like the OS experience itself is some unbeatable benchmark.

mrtksn 4y ago
Good for you. Good experience essentially means good defaults, stuff work reliably as expected and when things break you fix them easily. That usually require good edge case handling and justified restrictions. Notice how OP complains about not being able to change the default font and text size? Well, he is technically right but the thing is that Apple has already addressed the reason behind changing fonts by designing a UI that works well with all kind of resolutions. You don't have instances of extremely large or extremely small text or buttons, for example. It's all polished very well so there's no reason for someone to need to tune font size or font face. Sure, some people have visual impairments or use their computers differently therefore they can choose a "UI zoom level" instead of resolution and font sizes. This works very well for most people and that's why most people are very happy with their device. For people who don't find this behaviour useful for them, there's Ubuntu, Windows, ChromeOS etc. I see a lot of Android screenshots with barely legible fonts as system font. Some things are better when left to professionals and for those who disagree, there's Android of course.
- Matl 4y ago
  Yes, some of these make sense. I agree with you on fonts. On the other hand what makes the windows snapping behavior/lack of thereof without fiddling a good default?
  - mrtksn 4y ago
    Yep, I also think that macOS can use some improvements on the window management department but there are very good tools to fix that.

by Matl 4y ago

mrtksn 4y ago

Good for you. Good experience essentially means good defaults, stuff work reliably as expected and when things break you fix them easily. That usually require good edge case handling and justified restrictions. Notice how OP complains about not being able to change the default font and text size? Well, he is technically right but the thing is that Apple has already addressed the reason behind changing fonts by designing a UI that works well with all kind of resolutions. You don't have instances of extremely large or extremely small text or buttons, for example. It's all polished very well so there's no reason for someone to need to tune font size or font face. Sure, some people have visual impairments or use their computers differently therefore they can choose a "UI zoom level" instead of resolution and font sizes. This works very well for most people and that's why most people are very happy with their device. For people who don't find this behaviour useful for them, there's Ubuntu, Windows, ChromeOS etc. I see a lot of Android screenshots with barely legible fonts as system font. Some things are better when left to professionals and for those who disagree, there's Android of course.

Matl 4y ago
Yes, some of these make sense. I agree with you on fonts. On the other hand what makes the windows snapping behavior/lack of thereof without fiddling a good default?
- mrtksn 4y ago
  Yep, I also think that macOS can use some improvements on the window management department but there are very good tools to fix that.