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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

macOS. I find it to be the least inconvenient for most of my needs.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Forced to use macOS at work, and for me it sucks (only slightly less than Windows):

    • Slow UI (have to wait several seconds after login before spotlight is able to execute custom scripts)
    • Finder is a PITA and one of the dumbest file managers I was ever forced to use
    • No easy way to provision the system
    • Annoying nagging to use all the Apple services/login with Apple ID
    • Shitty software management (instead of a descent package manager, every fucking application has a popup for its own updates after opening, which breaks my flow)
    • macOS only interacts decently with other Apple devices (iPhone etc.) and has its own 'standards', taking away my freedom to choose what I want to use.

    Of course, your needs are your needs and if macOS fits your needs the best, all power to you.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Those seem like reasonable points, I think.

    I don't use any other Apple devices, so I have no opinion on that. And I don't often find myself provisioning macOS, but I use Nix to manage my system, so transferring to a new MacBook has been pretty easy for me.

    I tend to do a lot of Linux-ey things, and macOS (Unix-based) is much closer to that than Windows is. Also, I often see programming languages/runtimes that require extra/different steps to get up and running in Windows vs. Linux and macOS.

    Sure, Windows has WSL, but every time I've needed to do some IO-heavy operations with it, it was extremely slow. (Though it has been a few years, so maybe it's better now?)

    I also do a lot of web dev, so macOS offers a few more tools. If Safari wasn't so terrible, then macOS would become less necessary. But AFAIK (I haven't checked in a while), macOS is the only environment that can run Safari in an iOS emulator.

    My second choice would be NixOS... or maybe Ubuntu.

    Windows seems a bit bloated to me. I remember seeing something in the Start menu about X-Box, and I couldn't uninstall it, for some reason. I could remove the icon from the menu, but it still linked to some binary that was installed with the OS. I'm not a gamer, why do I need that on my system? Also, why did I have to uncheck so many data harvesting options during setup? I'm not very comfortable with things like that being built in to the OS, and enabled by default. I remember a time when things like that were commonly known as "spyware" – I guess it's just normalized now. (To be fair, I'm not a fan of having to decline Apple Intelligence multiple times on macOS either.)

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