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I find MacOS to have the worst UX of all the major OSes. It requires about a half-dozen third party apps to be usable. And there is a culture around MacOS whe
by nerdix 4y ago
I find MacOS to have the worst UX of all the major OSes.
It requires about a half-dozen third party apps to be usable. And there is a culture around MacOS where this appears to just be accepted. There are hundreds of YouTube videos on using this app or that app to "boost your productivity". And no one ever seems to question why any of this is necessary.
The Finder is the worst file explorer application that I've ever used. I will die on this hill. When you have a file or folder selected then pressing Enter should open it. IMO, Enter should always be mapped to the most common action in a given context so having the enter key mapped to rename just feel incredibly stupid. It is not initiative at all and AFAIK there is so way to change its behavior at all. There is probably is some third party app that will fix it though but for now I just avoid it completely and use the terminal.
The app based window management is just completely unintuitive to my brain. Closing an app (like actually closing it) is just a chore and so my desktop always has a gazillion apps open. Their "task bar" for minimized windows uses a screenshot thumbnail of the open window which makes it impossible to distinguish between minimized windows of the same app without hovering over it to see the window title. That creates enough friction for me that I avoid minimizing windows so more desktop clutter.
I basically run all of my main windows at full screen and ctrl-arrow through workspaces to multi-task because doing it any other way makes me want to go full office space on this macbook. BTW, would it be so hard to let me to jump to a workspace with a keyboard shortcut like every reasonable window manager does? No? Okay, guess I'll try to cobble some hack together with Keyboard Maestro.
So yes, dreaming of the day that I can use a linux desktop for work is what keeps me going.