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0 pointsFabHK6y ago0 comments

1. I think we can agree that making a switch of OS imposes quite some costs. You made the switch to macOS and found it all right. Now imagine I'd make the switch from macOS to some other OS - I'm quite certain that it would be worse.

2. I've used Windows and macOS concurrently, and was always amazed at how bad the Windows experience was (though, yes, it has improved, and unfortunately, as alluded to by Gruber in his piece on the new MBP [1], Apple has paid too much attention to looks and not enough to functionality in the last half decade).

3. I found most "portable" options (eg Electron, qt, etc.) generally worse than native apps. Exceptions are pure CLI tools - they're great (use homebrew on the Mac to manage those!)

[1] https://daringfireball.net/2019/11/16-inch_macbook_pro_first...

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Semaphor6y ago

Disclaimer: My apple experience is pretty much limited to trying to figure out why Safari is the only browser once again not doing things right, to helping my mother with her iPhone and to trying to make iTunes work in an (imo) sane way.

> Now imagine I'd make the switch from macOS to some other OS - I'm quite certain that it would be worse.

My impression of everything Apple has always been "There is one god-given way to do a thing. And it’s wonderful". But as soon as you don’t want to do it that way, things become weird or impossible.

If that’s even close to the truth, it would make a lot of sense that the opposite road is hard as you are trained to do things one certain way only.

FabHKOP6y ago

> Apple has always been "There is one god-given way to do a thing. And it’s wonderful". But as soon as you don’t want to do it that way, things become weird or impossible

Interesting, I find hacking and automating and customising on macOS much easier than on Windows, with the UNIX underpinnings and command line tools and Automator and script support etc.

(iOS - agreed, that's a walled garden)

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