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After all the hype I convinced my previous employer to buy me a MBP about 7 years ago and I was using it for about 3 years. Even then the macOS was quite bad, s

by jlpcsl 4y ago

After all the hype I convinced my previous employer to buy me a MBP about 7 years ago and I was using it for about 3 years. Even then the macOS was quite bad, so inflexible and with irritating barriers found to often. Even for the non-development work it was just lacking or it was just very expensive to bring it to the same level. And during those 3 years the stability also suffered a lot. So in the end I was glad to be back to GNU/Linux and KDE Plasma desktop on Lenovo X1 Carbon laptop. So much more powerful, flexible experience and also cheaper. And I had to use some MBP a couple of months ago at current job and macOS is even worse than it was back then, even more limited and dumbed down (more and more like iOS) and also there is a lot of tendency to bring in more surveillance tech just like thre is in Windows. I would choose GNU/Linux with KDE Plasma any day as it currently is, for both development and free time use. This also works much better with other devices which are not from Apple it is just a much more interoperable/open system.

xiande04 4y ago
Could you try providing at least 1 specific example of how MacOS is bad in your experience?
- sofixa 4y ago
  Not OP, and I've already mentioned this a few times here on HN, but any OS that has two separate menus to configure mice and trackpads, and has two toggles for the scroll direction of each, which modify the same setting and toggle each other one way or the other is just bad. That's a stupid limitation with terrible UX. Then you can add the utter undebuggability of the OS, the total lack of feedback on anything, magic buttons appearing only if you've filled all prerequisites, thus giving you no way of knowing what is missing, etc. etc. etc. I have no idea where this cult of Apple's UX comes from, it's just not great.
- ric2b 4y ago
  I can't even easily split the monitor to have two windows side by side without installing third party applications. I thought this was supposed to be the pinnacle of UX?

by jlpcsl 4y ago

xiande04 4y ago

Could you try providing at least 1 specific example of how MacOS is bad in your experience?

sofixa 4y ago
Not OP, and I've already mentioned this a few times here on HN, but any OS that has two separate menus to configure mice and trackpads, and has two toggles for the scroll direction of each, which modify the same setting and toggle each other one way or the other is just bad. That's a stupid limitation with terrible UX. Then you can add the utter undebuggability of the OS, the total lack of feedback on anything, magic buttons appearing only if you've filled all prerequisites, thus giving you no way of knowing what is missing, etc. etc. etc. I have no idea where this cult of Apple's UX comes from, it's just not great.
ric2b 4y ago
I can't even easily split the monitor to have two windows side by side without installing third party applications. I thought this was supposed to be the pinnacle of UX?