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[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 169 points 1 year ago

Calm down MacOS hasn't done shit to make it better. They decide what you do and don't get, daddy apple already made the decision and you have to deal with it.

"We did the thinking for you, and you'll like it." Might as well be their slogan.

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Mac still locks up with frozen applications. I hate it

[-] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, MacOS has way more bugs than Windows 10. It's kind of hard to believe that it has been this bad for the past several years. They keep pushing features, but they need a 1-2 year pause on features to fix the existing features they have.

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I agree and it's very weird to say that. The appeal of Mac when I was a kid was that it didn't have issues and I got blue screens on windows XP very often.

Now it seems the opposite. I've had my Mac entirely lock up because an application froze twice this month, but the last blue screen I had in windows was because I over clocked my RAM. I don't think I've had an issue other than that since Windows 7 released.

[-] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

I've had the exact opposite experience. Have never had an app freeze my Mac but my windows computer freezes up at least once a week. Using both for work so similar loads but I guess it's possible some of my work software is dodgy on the windows. Still probably shouldn't lock up like that so frequently.

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I must be lucky with windows then.

It's kind of ridiculous that either one can lock up due to a bad application though. Feels like lately it's been almost as bad as the XP and beach ball of death days.

[-] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I guess it's just really hard to make an operating system. My work Mac also isn't completely devoid of its own issues. Sometimes moving the mouse can be a bit laggy which is frustrating because I also have a personal Mac that's not laggy, so again probably the work software.

Absolutely agree it's ridiculous that modern hardware still sometimes chugs when it's thousands of times more powerful than what we had back in the day.

[-] Oneobi@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago

When I got a macbook from work I was honestly choked at how awful things were.

Even the simplest of tasks required googling. It was so very unintuitive.

I mean, I had to do some weird dragging to install an application!?

Even to this day, I totally avoid using it.

[-] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I mean, I had to do some weird dragging to install an application!?

Ah yes, the notoriously unintuitive feature known as… drag and drop.

[-] Oneobi@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Err, why couldn't they do the double click like everything else?

Double click and then do a drag and drop, totally intuitive.

[-] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

That’s… exactly what you do. macOS software is usually distributed in DMG files (compressed disk images). You download the DMG, open it (with a double click in Finder), then drag and drop the APP file to your Applications folder (or wherever else you want it to be).

Speaking of APP files, the structure of macOS apps is vastly superior to that of Windows, imo. Linux generally has them both beat, but there’s some additional complexity there.

[-] rambaroo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have to agree with the other person actually. The drag and drop thing is kind of weird. They ought to just automate it.

Other than that I think Mac is fairly easy to use, and more customizable than people realize.

I do wish they had better window management though. GNOME and Windows both make window snapping so much easier than Mac. And the support for third party hardware on Mac is pretty bad.

[-] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The drag and drop thing is because it's an app file. "Installation" is just putting the file in your application folder, or wherever you want it. Apps are (usually) just files, unlike on windows, so you don't need to go through a complicated installation process, just put them where you want them (usually the applications folder).

The window snapping thing is annoying (but it's not apple's fault, Microsoft has a patent on it lol). There's a bunch of free apps that add window snapping though 🤷‍♀️

[-] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

An aside, You can make KDE feel like that, but youd know every hairbrain behavor because you did it yourself.

[-] Korne127@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

People who have ever only used one operating system, and tried to apply everything how they use that exactly to a different one are awful. Yeah, different OSs are different, that's the point of it. That you don't do everything exactly how you are used on it, doesn't make the OS bad, you just need some time to get accustomed to some things being different.
The people here are the most biased possible.

[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly if they bought Apple products they clearly signed up to let Apple do the thinking for them.

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