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I'll take him seriously on it. MacOS and Windows are terrible for professional purposes, for a number of reasons: 1. Requires Windows Pro or Apple Developer li

I'll take him seriously on it. MacOS and Windows are terrible for professional purposes, for a number of reasons: 1. Requires Windows Pro or Apple Developer license to unlock full featureset 2. Cannot reasonably disable targeted advertising or ad data collection from either OS 3. Neither come with package managers and do not respect third-party packaging either 4. Can be "managed" insofar as your buggy CPM software allows, often glitched by the OS itself 5. The experience is always getting worse since Apple and Microsoft share a united front of making people spend as much money on useless shit as humanly possible Now, that's not to say nobody should use these OSes - certainly people are locked into them for some purposes. But as a programmer it's genuinely hard for me to be productive on these OSes because I end up fighting them just for everyday, non-programming purposes. I think it's entirely possible that MacOS and Windows can be inherently terrible experiences while also being mandatory for certain workflows.

_mlbt 2y ago
I consider my usage of my Macs to be "professional." 1. An Apple Developer license is only required for distributing software in App Stores and notarizing. 2. I'm not sure what ads you're talking about in macOS. I've only ever seen them in the completely optional App Store. 3. Installing Homebrew is literally a one liner. I've never used it, but Macports appears to be similarly easy as an alternative. 4. I can't speak to this point, so I'll take your word for it. 5. I only started using macOS since the Apple Silicon era, but as far as I'm concerned the experience just keeps getting better and better. Every release of macOS has added features I enjoy and use constantly. Just the seamless integration between all of the Apple products in my house was worth switching from my previous mix of Windows, Linux, and Android.

_mlbt 2y ago

I consider my usage of my Macs to be "professional." 1. An Apple Developer license is only required for distributing software in App Stores and notarizing. 2. I'm not sure what ads you're talking about in macOS. I've only ever seen them in the completely optional App Store. 3. Installing Homebrew is literally a one liner. I've never used it, but Macports appears to be similarly easy as an alternative. 4. I can't speak to this point, so I'll take your word for it. 5. I only started using macOS since the Apple Silicon era, but as far as I'm concerned the experience just keeps getting better and better. Every release of macOS has added features I enjoy and use constantly. Just the seamless integration between all of the Apple products in my house was worth switching from my previous mix of Windows, Linux, and Android.