He's obsessed (quokk.au)
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A flowchart starting with: Do you want a computer? No points to MacOS, yes points to the question Do you want a working computer. Yes points to Linux, no points to the question Are you Linus Tech Tips. Yes points to Pop OS, no points to Windows.
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[–] 3 points 6 months ago (16 children)

Shitting on macOS like that is completely unjustified.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    As someone who hates Windows and refuses to use it, if I had to choose between it and a Mac, I'd have to choose Windows. At least I can remove the bloat and my keybinds and devices will always work.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago* (8 children)

    No skill issue involved when your team arrives to work and every single employee's screen sharing functionality stops working...and there's no warning or notification why it's not working.

    No skill involved when your sound drivers stop working during a presentation and you need to reboot to get them working again because there's no way to restart the devices.

    No skill issue when the file explorer has no way to access the root directory - you have to run finder from the command bar and that somehow works.

    No skill issue involved when an update breaks all local domains and you have no way to override, so you have to change all dev domains for everyone across the whole org....TWICE.

    No skill issue when wifi and bluetooth randomly stop working and the only solution is to reboot.

    No skill issue when pressing the play button and it open iTunes when Spotify is already open.

    Not a skill issue when desktop transitions don't accept input until the transition completes. Reducing the transition time does not help, the transition must fully complete before you can provide input.

    I could go on, but I can only recall so much anecdotal experience from the few years I suffered through that shit. Maybe some of these things have been fixed, but release after release the experience would worsen and usability would degrade. I'll never use a mac again, my productivity is too important to me.

    Anyone who stans for MacOS are just lying to themselves.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    It's understandable that you had issues and I have quite a few gripes with it as well, but I never had any of the severe ones you mentioned.

    I use it for backend development (Go and C#) and Game dev. I've used Linux for a long time, Apple silicon is what made me curious enough to try a macbook for work purposes and I'm generally happy with it after 4 years of heavy usage. Windows I use exclusively for gaming but that's going to change very soon.

    It's fine if you don't like it but calling it a "non-computer" is dumb, and that's what my original comment was meant to convey.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    None of these happen on a regular occasion, I can’t even remember the last time ANY of them happened in my office where macOS is the default. 90% of what you experienced is probably user created errors**. But then again I realize I’m in a Linux sub and it’s what we Linux users do, tweak shit.

    ** except for the play button. Apple does like to force Apple Music over my already open player.

    macOS is perfect for every day use for most people and for those that know how to use it outside the normal, powerful.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago

    This shit happened all the time, it was a non-stop nuisance, and it's only the tip of the iceberg. Retina display would disconnect daily, peripherals would disconnect when connected through a retina display, the entire OS one time would not boot and there was no real error message but was fixed by clearing some battery cache after we already ordered a new macbook.

    These issues plagued our entire office, but you just lived with it because you didn't have a choice. One ycombinator commentor described these issues as "papercuts", and they're so abundant that they moved away from MacOS entirely. Another commentor describes that the most recent release is the most "breaking" version yet. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440759

    It's pretty ignorant to say "it's perfect for every day use" in the face of literal users struggling to use it for "every day use".

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    Don't forget forced AI bullshit

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    I haven't used a mac in a few years - there's AI stuff now? The OS was pretty bloated considering what it was - it used more memory than a Windows machine which is impressive.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    A Mac user CANNOT use the retort "skill issue" πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ it's the OS that requires the LEAST amount of skill of all the options available and that's saying something when chromeOS exists

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