Comment by duxup

18 days ago

I was a windows guy for a long time. I went to macOS. Despite the complaints I've seen on the internet I've been very happy in macOS land. Someone mentioned that while macOS has "never been worse" the difference between windows and macOS "has never been greater".

Granted things like gaming might influence someone to not make that move.

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thot_experiment  18 days ago

macOS seems cool in theory, but in practice it's not a "you own your computer" operating system so it's just a no go off the bat for me, i get it for people that just kinda stay in the center of the bell curve when it comes to computer use, but there's a 100% chance i'd end up in some situation where i'm fighting against apple's locked-down ness in approx 20minutes of owning a mac.

i'm fundamentally never going to accept a UX where i'm not absolute god of my computer, if i want to delete files crucial to my system's ability to function or run something with kernel level access to all my memory that's MY prerogative, i cannot imagine using a computer that doesn't listen to me

  • abawany  18 days ago

    macos has gotten worse about this in recent releases - I was astounded when I learnt that apple news, apple books, and apple music are uninstallable; these are still removable on ios but not on macos for some reason.

    • kayodelycaon  18 days ago

      That's because the applications in macOS are in the sealed volume as part of the operating system.

      On iOS, apps are managed by the operating system. On macOS, they're files.

  • duxup  17 days ago

    I understand how some folks feel about that, it just hasn’t been a problem for me.