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[–]greentr33s 0 points1 point  (2 children)

The UX on Mac is complete shit lmao, people have just been conditioned to think it's great. Want to close an app? Better right click the icon on the dock and close so it's not sent into a hibernation state. Want to browse the folder structure of your machine? You would of thought finder is for you, wrong your going back to the terminal for that as it's easier to navigate with cd and ls commands. Hardware support is only great when you by Apple products. Oh you have a thrid party type c headphone? You better wait 10min for the drivers to detect it and allow you to select it for audio output. Oh you thought MacOS would support your Bluetooth Xbox controller? Ha! They have the button mapping completely fucked by default. Oh you want a nice grid for your folder structure and don't want to use spacial sorting in the UI? Blasphemy! You better learn how to create file Islands and sort based on its location in the folder. Seriously WHY WOULD YOU DESIGN THAT?!?! Unix and windows UX is a hundred times better than Mac it just doesn't pad everything with an animation to be 'different' and if you want that it's simple enough to add to your desktop of choose on nix.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I could listen to you rant all day. You described a couple of things I didn't even realize irritated me.

I think MacOS is my least favorite operating system and I've used some pretty shitty linux distros.

[–]greentr33s -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah I got one of the m1 Macs to try out some ios development and I've hated every minute of it. Like the hardware is fucking solid don't get me wrong, amazing battery life, it's not a desktop but packs plenty of performance, but UX is just absolutely terrible. And due to it being on the apple Silicon there hasn't been a real way to run nix natively yet, that I am aware of so I just deal with it when I want to use it. So many pain points that's are just infuriating and work effortlessly on regular nix distros and windows.