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Mac has weak multi-tasking and window management UI. The Dock also sucks: https://www.asktog.com/columns/044top10docksucks.html https://www.asktog.com/columns/0

Mac has weak multi-tasking and window management UI. The Dock also sucks: https://www.asktog.com/columns/044top10docksucks.html https://www.asktog.com/columns/044top10docksucks.html . Strengths: 1. Really nice trackpad. It tracks smoothly. Really well integrated trackpad gestures. It makes a difference. 2. It is literally UNIX 3. Native-app developers that care (eroding year-by-year, but software companies like Panic, Omni, BareBones make first-class software that belongs on the platform). (Windows certainly has more apps, and probably more high quality apps by volume, but Mac apps tend a bit more toward high-quality-density in a more limited application pool) 4. Drivers. I swear, I get laptops from manufacturers with bad Windows installs, glitchy drivers, poor configuration, etc. I also hate cleaning crapware off of new machines and fresh installing OSes. 5. Lack of options. Few people explicitly value this, and sometimes, the Mac way is dumb, but since it's often the Mac way or the highway, it takes some cognitive overhead out of computing. Overall, I find the Mac less of a hassle. Most things are pretty good, and you mostly can't fiddle with them too much, so you get the strength of that on the whole, not in one particular dazzling thing (except the trackpad.) Garbage window management and multi-tasking indisputable, though.

bradleyjg 4y ago
I’ve used dos, windows, linux, and mac. I appreciate the fact that macs are not very tweakable. I won’t speak for others but for me endless customization of everything supposedly for optimization was just another form of procrastination. I also appreciate that it mostly either works or it doesn’t. Either it’s broken and I need to swap it for a refurb or it works. Not much staying up late reading obscure stack overflow posts (in the old days webforums, in the old old days newsgroups) and trying this one more thing to fix the problem de jure.

bradleyjg 4y ago

I’ve used dos, windows, linux, and mac. I appreciate the fact that macs are not very tweakable. I won’t speak for others but for me endless customization of everything supposedly for optimization was just another form of procrastination. I also appreciate that it mostly either works or it doesn’t. Either it’s broken and I need to swap it for a refurb or it works. Not much staying up late reading obscure stack overflow posts (in the old days webforums, in the old old days newsgroups) and trying this one more thing to fix the problem de jure.