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I'll take a few ads over the illogical mess that is MacOS. To make your settings stick, use group policies instead of Control Panel, Settings and the registry.

I'll take a few ads over the illogical mess that is MacOS. To make your settings stick, use group policies instead of Control Panel, Settings and the registry. It's the much more stable and better documented equivalent of MacOS' "defaults." > I tried even using local accounts but it causes significant issues in the OS. I have never not used a local account, so I'm unsure what you're saying, because it hasn't caused any issues at all, let alone significant ones. Can you provide an example?

slowmovintarget 2y ago
MacOS when seen through the lens of iTerm2 is actually pretty great. brew install theThingIActuallyWant ...and you're off. Settings for notifications and obnoxious start-up stuff, all in one place and in your hands, not Microsoft's and in most cases, not even Apple's. It is better than Windows. Linux, with complete user control, is better. It has rough edges, still, but your computer is your own. MacOS is the better of the two consumer offerings. Windows is now the sleaziest of all, and I'm sad about that. I've been a gamer and PC enthusiast for more than 40 years. I've used Windows since there was a Windows, and MS-DOS before that. My first "real" computer was an IBM XT clone running MS-DOS 3.3. I went to the store for every upgrade. Microsoft Bob was the first thing I passed on, but I've used all the others. I was beyond excited for Windows 95, I ran NT, and all of it's variants. I loved Windows 2000. ME, 7, 8, 10... I still have licenses. I won't touch 11. I've switched to Linux on my desktop, and won't be going back. I use Macs for work, and for the family PC. Microsoft Office is still the best office suite out there, but I'll run it on Mac or through Bottles on Linux. I won't let Windows on my hardware anymore if I can help it.
- ycombinator_acc 2y ago
  > `brew install theThingIActuallyWant` Homebrew is a third-party tool neither written nor endorsed by Apple that does hacky things and causes breakage with things as simple and fundamental as a [multi user install]. > Settings for notifications and obnoxious start-up stuff, all in one place and in your hands, not Microsoft's and in most cases, not even Apple's. It is better than Windows. Right-click on Start - Task Manager - Startup apps. Right-click on notification icon - Notifications settings. I am not "off." You just don't know Windows. I know MacOS with all its illogical UX. No idea why you brought up Linux. It's [less secure] than both macOS and Windows and much less secure than Android and iOS, so I wouldn't use it as a desktop OS to begin with, and it's not really relevant to the discussion. [multi user install]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41840479/how-to-use-homebrew-on-a-multi-user-macos-sierra-setup https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41840479/how-to-use-home... [less secure]: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html
  - slowmovintarget 2y ago
    I didn't mean that you specifically, are off. I was using a shortened form of the expression "and you're off to the races" as in, "you're all ready to go." Sorry for the confusion over that phrase. And it's more like: Task Manager | Startup Apps Start menu > Start up shortcuts Service Manager... disable services set to run on start Registry settings for on-login and on-start up items Multiple layers of registry settings for other run-once or run-if apps that can install or configure any of the above and make things come back. I know Windows just fine (I've been a programmer/developer/software engineer/you name the title for 30 years), and it's become a never ending whack-a-mole every time there was a system update. And it is far more difficult to keep Windows doing what you want it to and keeping it from doing what you don't, because of Microsoft, than any other operating system. I've watched Windows go from pretty darn good to buggy, messy, and extractive. It is no longer the operating system for me, and I will happily recommend Mac to my family who, by and large, don't game.
  - sergeykish 2y ago
    Android is more secure, yet Android built on Linux kernel, this invalidates Linux kernel security claims. X11? Use Wayland. UWP requires Microsoft Store or "sideloading" so not used by a lot of applications. Windows is not open source, there could be countless vulnerabilities and backdoors. Windows users still download installers from Web, they are phishing targets. Linux desktop is mostly open source software. Raise of closed source software would bring Android like security.
  - SauciestGNU 2y ago
    Wrt homebrew not being endorsed by Apple, I want to point out that Apple's internal protocols have their engineers using it as the standard tool. I'm not sure what better endorsement there could be.
wiseowise 2y ago
> To prove how awful and illogical Mac OS is I’m going to provide God knows what feature that 99.9 casual users don’t know or care about Laughable.

slowmovintarget 2y ago

MacOS when seen through the lens of iTerm2 is actually pretty great. brew install theThingIActuallyWant ...and you're off. Settings for notifications and obnoxious start-up stuff, all in one place and in your hands, not Microsoft's and in most cases, not even Apple's. It is better than Windows. Linux, with complete user control, is better. It has rough edges, still, but your computer is your own. MacOS is the better of the two consumer offerings. Windows is now the sleaziest of all, and I'm sad about that. I've been a gamer and PC enthusiast for more than 40 years. I've used Windows since there was a Windows, and MS-DOS before that. My first "real" computer was an IBM XT clone running MS-DOS 3.3. I went to the store for every upgrade. Microsoft Bob was the first thing I passed on, but I've used all the others. I was beyond excited for Windows 95, I ran NT, and all of it's variants. I loved Windows 2000. ME, 7, 8, 10... I still have licenses. I won't touch 11. I've switched to Linux on my desktop, and won't be going back. I use Macs for work, and for the family PC. Microsoft Office is still the best office suite out there, but I'll run it on Mac or through Bottles on Linux. I won't let Windows on my hardware anymore if I can help it.

ycombinator_acc 2y ago
> `brew install theThingIActuallyWant` Homebrew is a third-party tool neither written nor endorsed by Apple that does hacky things and causes breakage with things as simple and fundamental as a [multi user install]. > Settings for notifications and obnoxious start-up stuff, all in one place and in your hands, not Microsoft's and in most cases, not even Apple's. It is better than Windows. Right-click on Start - Task Manager - Startup apps. Right-click on notification icon - Notifications settings. I am not "off." You just don't know Windows. I know MacOS with all its illogical UX. No idea why you brought up Linux. It's [less secure] than both macOS and Windows and much less secure than Android and iOS, so I wouldn't use it as a desktop OS to begin with, and it's not really relevant to the discussion. [multi user install]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41840479/how-to-use-homebrew-on-a-multi-user-macos-sierra-setup https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41840479/how-to-use-home... [less secure]: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html
- slowmovintarget 2y ago
  I didn't mean that you specifically, are off. I was using a shortened form of the expression "and you're off to the races" as in, "you're all ready to go." Sorry for the confusion over that phrase. And it's more like: Task Manager | Startup Apps Start menu > Start up shortcuts Service Manager... disable services set to run on start Registry settings for on-login and on-start up items Multiple layers of registry settings for other run-once or run-if apps that can install or configure any of the above and make things come back. I know Windows just fine (I've been a programmer/developer/software engineer/you name the title for 30 years), and it's become a never ending whack-a-mole every time there was a system update. And it is far more difficult to keep Windows doing what you want it to and keeping it from doing what you don't, because of Microsoft, than any other operating system. I've watched Windows go from pretty darn good to buggy, messy, and extractive. It is no longer the operating system for me, and I will happily recommend Mac to my family who, by and large, don't game.
- sergeykish 2y ago
  Android is more secure, yet Android built on Linux kernel, this invalidates Linux kernel security claims. X11? Use Wayland. UWP requires Microsoft Store or "sideloading" so not used by a lot of applications. Windows is not open source, there could be countless vulnerabilities and backdoors. Windows users still download installers from Web, they are phishing targets. Linux desktop is mostly open source software. Raise of closed source software would bring Android like security.
- SauciestGNU 2y ago
  Wrt homebrew not being endorsed by Apple, I want to point out that Apple's internal protocols have their engineers using it as the standard tool. I'm not sure what better endorsement there could be.

wiseowise 2y ago

> To prove how awful and illogical Mac OS is I’m going to provide God knows what feature that 99.9 casual users don’t know or care about Laughable.