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0 pointsmrtksn5y ago0 comments

You can have different opinions on what's sensible but to claim that something is not sensible as general you need to make a point about an issue due to the default settings.

For example, if people were getting hacked through remote desktop connection all the time you could have said that macOS has insensible defaults on the security or even existence of that feature.

However, with macOS that's not the case, in fact macOS has so sensible defaults that a lot of its users have no understanding of how it works and yet successfully use it for years with no issues and not gaining any understanding through the years.

The thing is so well designed that it's often dissed as a Starbucks machine, implying that it is used by people with a lot of money who don't know what they are doing while simultaneously is an extremely popular machine among creative professionals and engineers who also like coffee and know what they are doing.

Having options is nice, for example I dislike dark mode but I like the dark statusbar so I have a customisation for it. I dislike autosorting of the Spaces, so I disabled it. I prefer to simply tap and not have to press on the trackbar so I enabled it.

However I would't call the defaults not-sensible, it's just that I like some stuff differently from the defaults.

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root_axis5y ago

> a lot of its users have no understanding of how it works and yet successfully use it for years with no issues and not gaining any understanding through the years.

This is true of every popular operating system. Most people just adapt to the defaults regardless of the OS. There are millions of people who use windows or chrome os, or even ubuntu as-is out of the box. Whether or not people want to change the defaults just depends on what they're used to, if you used windows for years and switch to macOS it's very likely you're going to be inclined to modify certain defaults and the same is true in reverse.

notsureaboutpg5y ago

The defaults aren't powerful, thought they are sensible.

Windows (and most Linux DEs like KDE) come with out of the box snapping windows to the four corners of the screen and to the left and right which is perfect for how most people use their laptops. Most people need two separate windows open side by side because most jobs are about synthesizing two separate flows of information in some way (research in one window while writing a document in another for example).

In mac you need to install an app to do this (Rectangle/Spectacle). Now, that's fine because you can click and drag the windows where you need them to be. But it wastes your time whereas the default in Linux/Windows saves your time. Sensibility over power.

m5l5y ago

This isn’t true for the last handful of major versions of macOS. It may not be as intuitive as other OSs but you can click and hold (or right-click I think) on the green button in the traffic light to get side by side options.

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happymellon5y ago

I find Amethyst to be great for this, it also adds the missing command to move Windows between desktops.

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