at least mac has a functional filesystem and shell lol
Shitting on macOS like that is completely unjustified.
Nah, worst os I’ve ever used
Skill issue
No skill issue involved when your team arrives to work and every single employee’s screen sharing functionality stops working…and there’s no warning or notification why it’s not working.
No skill involved when your sound drivers stop working during a presentation and you need to reboot to get them working again because there’s no way to restart the devices.
No skill issue when the file explorer has no way to access the root directory - you have to run finder from the command bar and that somehow works.
No skill issue involved when an update breaks all local domains and you have no way to override, so you have to change all dev domains for everyone across the whole org…TWICE.
No skill issue when wifi and bluetooth randomly stop working and the only solution is to reboot.
No skill issue when pressing the play button and it open iTunes when Spotify is already open.
Not a skill issue when desktop transitions don’t accept input until the transition completes. Reducing the transition time does not help, the transition must fully complete before you can provide input.
I could go on, but I can only recall so much anecdotal experience from the few years I suffered through that shit. Maybe some of these things have been fixed, but release after release the experience would worsen and usability would degrade. I’ll never use a mac again, my productivity is too important to me.
Anyone who stans for MacOS are just lying to themselves.
Thank you for providing examples. Some are fair enough.
file explorer has no way to access the root directory
It has several ways. From the menu bar: > Go to… > Folder > /
By default Finder no longer shows your main drive in the sidebar. You can easily enable that in Finder settings though.
You can also navigate the folder hierarchy up until you are at root.
cmd+upis the keyboard shortcut for that. You can also command + click the icon in the window title bar and then select the folder upwards in the hierarchy you want to navigate to.There are several other ways to do this as well.
reboot
A very common way to resolve problems on all operating systems.
update breaks all local domains
Weird.
release after release the experience would worsen and usability would degrade
I agree that macOS experience has worsened over the last couple of years. It’s still better than Linux and windows overall.
It’s understandable that you had issues and I have quite a few gripes with it as well, but I never had any of the severe ones you mentioned.
I use it for backend development (Go and C#) and Game dev. I’ve used Linux for a long time, Apple silicon is what made me curious enough to try a macbook for work purposes and I’m generally happy with it after 4 years of heavy usage. Windows I use exclusively for gaming but that’s going to change very soon.
It’s fine if you don’t like it but calling it a “non-computer” is dumb, and that’s what my original comment was meant to convey.
None of these happen on a regular occasion, I can’t even remember the last time ANY of them happened in my office where macOS is the default. 90% of what you experienced is probably user created errors**. But then again I realize I’m in a Linux sub and it’s what we Linux users do, tweak shit.
** except for the play button. Apple does like to force Apple Music over my already open player.
macOS is perfect for every day use for most people and for those that know how to use it outside the normal, powerful.
This shit happened all the time, it was a non-stop nuisance, and it’s only the tip of the iceberg. Retina display would disconnect daily, peripherals would disconnect when connected through a retina display, the entire OS one time would not boot and there was no real error message but was fixed by clearing some battery cache after we already ordered a new macbook.
These issues plagued our entire office, but you just lived with it because you didn’t have a choice. One ycombinator commentor described these issues as “papercuts”, and they’re so abundant that they moved away from MacOS entirely. Another commentor describes that the most recent release is the most “breaking” version yet. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440759
It’s pretty ignorant to say “it’s perfect for every day use” in the face of literal users struggling to use it for “every day use”.
I’m borderline Linux illiterate and have been using Pop as my daily driver for years without problems.
I think I’ve had to troubleshoot a major issue exactly one time and that was easy.
Btw, Pop OS has said they will comply and add age attestation in case you weren’t aware.
This really shouldn’t be a hot take but I think the people here will disagree. “Linus unironically did nothing wrong in his linux challenge video” The linux community really shouldnt act like he was using it wrong because its a terrible look.
No reasonable person can pretend there are no issues with linux. Sure you can get good at using linux and not run into these issues but they still exist and people will still run into them and you shouldnt blame the person.
Weren’t people giving him commands, and he was running them without understanding what they did? Or am I thinking of somebody else?
Aha you were probably thinking of every one that is learning Linux ever born?
Linus has a skill for messing things up with Linux
It’s a little crazy to me how the most popular tech youtuber struggles so much with Linux, meanwhile fucking PewDiePie, who’s not known for being particularly bright, has been making videos about Linux and selfhosting and how fun it is to configure his system lol.
LTT isn’t known for being bright either.
The main draw of his channel is that he has no idea what he’s doing.
Like his budget builds that rely on buying parts later so they aren’t included in the price. Or that he stands on the cases to close them.
It’s just about watching a monkey play with tech.
The hardest person to convert is a Windows “poweruser”. They have an unfounded confidence in their ability to do things. They think because they know Windows well they should be immediate pros at other OSes as well.
Naw he’s just the ElectroBOOM of computers. Intentionally does shit wrong to show people how not to do things.
He wishes he were electroboom
Wut popos is pretty good got it on all other family members computors
