> and MacOS is attached to overpriced mediocrity
I'm not a mac user but calling the M1/M2 macbooks overpriced mediocrity is simply ridiculous and shows how out of touch you are.
I'm not a mac user but calling the M1/M2 macbooks overpriced mediocrity is simply ridiculous and shows how out of touch you are.
My work laptop is a Mac. My work workstation is a Linux (Gnome) machine. My personal workstation is a Windows 10 machine (not upgrading until they bring back side taskbar). I own and regularly use a Chromebook. I am familiar with all the major desktop environments and OS X is my least favorite.
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It also requires me to be able to install arbitrary software on my Mac, which has not been the case at most employers I've worked for.
.....or I could buy a Windows machine and get that all out of the box.
M1/M2 are hardware. MacOS is software. As far as operating systems go MacOS is very much mediocre.
The comment he was replying to saids that MacOS is "attached to overpriced mediocrity". It seems pretty clear that is talking about hardware.
-Relatively secure
-Game changing integration with my other Apple products (NOBODY else does this)
-Stays out of my way for the most part
-Runs important commercial software like Office365 natively
-UNIX shell right out of the box
-Homebrew is a decent package manager and easy to install
-Emacs key binds for text entry fields across the entire OS
-It's a little thing, but the animations and sounds make it kind of fun to use
It's a bit inflexible, and the UNIX layer could use some love and modernization, I'll give you that, but once you learn to work within the paradigm, I think it's actually a really good OS.
Oh, and you definitely need to install something like Rectangle to get window snapping, I can't go without that after using it on Windows and Linux, but that's easy enough to fix.
Eh, not really. They do it really well and present it very nicely, but mostly sherlocked and not at all unique. Also, it really stumbles once you throw any non-apple stuff in.
LTspice, Maxima and O365 are horrible on macos.
Edit: as some of the sibling comments are saying, maybe parent was talking about Mac OS itself, not the hardware. Some things in Mac OS leave a lot to be desired IME, e.g. windows tiling (can be solved by installing something like Rectangle but really it should be part of the OS) https://rectangleapp.com/