I didn’t either until the recent M1 Macs. They’re top notch and since they got rid of that Job’s designer, better engineered as well. Now I hear they already dropped the ball with M2 machines.
Coming from Windows and Linux I think MacOS is a complete mess regarding usability, but it runs super smooth on M1s, especially with those 120Hz Promotion screens.
Got 2 MacBooks Pro but the only device I bought was the phone. You always get the upgrades for it, well at least for a very long time and everyone’s got the same thing…like communism!
My Marxist analysis told me Apple is the only company with no interest in selling user data to someone, but then they were caught cooking something up with Facebook…I guess the line must go up.
I certainly didn't expect it, but it simply is a mess. First thing I did, is learn the keyboards shortcuts and boy oh boy...
Double clicking title bar sometimes maximises window just vertically, sometimes both vertically and horizontally.
What is the point of hiding windows, as opposed to minimising them with that neat animation? Confusing.
Sometimes minimise window shortcut, doesn't work on a window at all.
Sometimes both minimise and hide don't work (e.g. Docker desktop) and you actually have to quit application (3rd shortcut) to get rid of it, but there's no indication tell you that.
Sometimes you have to hold command + Q longer to quit an app, BUT NOT FOR TOO LONG or you will close other apps as well. WTF?
Sometimes full screen doesn't work and the shortcut is with the stupid FN key.
Sometimes, clicking on an app, which you can see it's running by the dot below it, doesn't do anything. Instead of showing that app up front, nothing happens at all. You can click as much as you want on it, but it just doesn't show up for some obscure reason. Annoying.
Some (?) windows sometimes always stay up front? Like Notes? Even when you click on a window below it? There's no indication this is some "special" window.
The min, max, close buttons on windows are super small and you want to use shortcuts instead...which don't work that well.
Also, clicking on red cross to close the app, doesn't really close it, just hides it.
No window snapping to sides? Instead you have to get an app for it, everyone immediately gets, but Apple refuses to implement???
Hate how the End key is for end of document, not end of line. Supper annoying.
The ctrl to command switcheroo is also annoying, but command is arguably better positioned.
Not to mention font rendering issues, scaling issues, stuff like needing exotic 5K monitors for the perfect "retina" picture sharpness, where you can only buy wildly overpriced Apple 27" monitor garbage (not even miniLED) you can't move up or down with another $400 and even the Apple fan boy would agree it's ridiculous, or a super fugly 5 year old LG model which looks like it's going to fall apart if you stare at it too much. There's also an Apple 32" 6k miniLED monitor for like insane $5k with like 100 dimming zones? Samsung just made one 32" 4k miniLED monitor for $1.3k with over THOUSAND dimming zones.
The whole experience isn't that smooth either, on overheating, fan spinning, Intel machines. It's just a hot mess...don't know who ever had the idea MacOS is some super UX. It's all marketing.
On the positive side, installing apps by dropping them to "Applications" is cutting-edge stuff compared to Windows and it runs super smooth, quiet and cool on M1s.
I just find Windows an absolutely clusterfuck. Trying to find another machine on the network, adding a network printer, anything to do with changing account settings in Outlook.
I didn’t either until the recent M1 Macs. They’re top notch and since they got rid of that Job’s designer, better engineered as well. Now I hear they already dropped the ball with M2 machines.
Coming from Windows and Linux I think MacOS is a complete mess regarding usability, but it runs super smooth on M1s, especially with those 120Hz Promotion screens.
Got 2 MacBooks Pro but the only device I bought was the phone. You always get the upgrades for it, well at least for a very long time and everyone’s got the same thing…like communism!
My Marxist analysis told me Apple is the only company with no interest in selling user data to someone, but then they were caught cooking something up with Facebook…I guess the line must go up.
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I certainly didn't expect it, but it simply is a mess. First thing I did, is learn the keyboards shortcuts and boy oh boy...
Double clicking title bar sometimes maximises window just vertically, sometimes both vertically and horizontally.
What is the point of hiding windows, as opposed to minimising them with that neat animation? Confusing.
Sometimes minimise window shortcut, doesn't work on a window at all.
Sometimes both minimise and hide don't work (e.g. Docker desktop) and you actually have to quit application (3rd shortcut) to get rid of it, but there's no indication tell you that.
Sometimes you have to hold command + Q longer to quit an app, BUT NOT FOR TOO LONG or you will close other apps as well. WTF?
Sometimes full screen doesn't work and the shortcut is with the stupid FN key.
Sometimes, clicking on an app, which you can see it's running by the dot below it, doesn't do anything. Instead of showing that app up front, nothing happens at all. You can click as much as you want on it, but it just doesn't show up for some obscure reason. Annoying.
Some (?) windows sometimes always stay up front? Like Notes? Even when you click on a window below it? There's no indication this is some "special" window.
The min, max, close buttons on windows are super small and you want to use shortcuts instead...which don't work that well. Also, clicking on red cross to close the app, doesn't really close it, just hides it.
No window snapping to sides? Instead you have to get an app for it, everyone immediately gets, but Apple refuses to implement???
Hate how the End key is for end of document, not end of line. Supper annoying. The ctrl to command switcheroo is also annoying, but command is arguably better positioned.
Not to mention font rendering issues, scaling issues, stuff like needing exotic 5K monitors for the perfect "retina" picture sharpness, where you can only buy wildly overpriced Apple 27" monitor garbage (not even miniLED) you can't move up or down with another $400 and even the Apple fan boy would agree it's ridiculous, or a super fugly 5 year old LG model which looks like it's going to fall apart if you stare at it too much. There's also an Apple 32" 6k miniLED monitor for like insane $5k with like 100 dimming zones? Samsung just made one 32" 4k miniLED monitor for $1.3k with over THOUSAND dimming zones.
The whole experience isn't that smooth either, on overheating, fan spinning, Intel machines. It's just a hot mess...don't know who ever had the idea MacOS is some super UX. It's all marketing.
On the positive side, installing apps by dropping them to "Applications" is cutting-edge stuff compared to Windows and it runs super smooth, quiet and cool on M1s.
I just find Windows an absolutely clusterfuck. Trying to find another machine on the network, adding a network printer, anything to do with changing account settings in Outlook.