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    [–] dan69@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

    That’s my phone choice. Lol can you imagine the amount of tasks needed to complete to accept/deny incoming/outgoing transactions..

    [–] encrust9870@lemmy.world 145 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Maybe decades ago, but not now.

    Yeah, Mac stuff is white or silver now. They stopped doing the colourful stuff 20-odd years ago.

    [–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Mac osx has unix command prompts built in and the ability to containerize out of the gate. Windows requires WSL and a bunch of other shit to achieve a substantially worse effect.

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    [–] Sylence@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Exactly. Modern Windows is like Tesla - shiny exterior built on top of garbage cobbled together with paperclips and duct tape. No visible knobs, no easy to access features, everything hidden behind layers of needless menus and abstraction with the express goal to extract maximum value from their 'customers'.

    I'm not an Apple fanboy by any means but I feel like the two ecosystems are much closer now than they were 10-15 years ago.

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    [–] muhyb@programming.dev 115 points 1 week ago

    It's an older meme sir but it doesn't check out anymore.

    [–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 106 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (20 children)

    Inaccurate.

    If you're a Linux user why wouldn't you unlock MacOS' potential by using the command line? MacOS is UNIX based, so you have access to its guts, just as you would any other UNIX based system.

    [–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 week ago

    Exactly. MacOS is the best of both worlds; it’s my absolute favorite distro of BSD.

    [–] ccunning@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    It’s not just UNIX based; it is a certified UNIX OS:
    https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

    Hence the "based"

    [–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    Because I'm not going to willingly give my creative efforts over to a corporation that will hold it hostage and only allow me to work so long as I'm using only their products.

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    [–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)
    /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
    

    Homebrew, plus some VMs, and you get the best of all platforms in one computer.

    This used to be particularly awesome when macOS was intel based, as now running an intel based machine image on apple's ARM architecture is awkward by comparison, but hopefully that will resolve somewhat soon.

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    [–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    This is some boomer level β€œhurr hurr” bullshit that is just patently not true. Keep giving Microsoft credit it doesn’t deserve.

    [–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

    Right? Windows is like a Tesla. One of those wankpanzers that cut off your fingers, brick in the car wash and immolate their drivers.

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    [–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Flip Windows and macOS and I think the meme works again.

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    [–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I'd reverse Windows and Mac. Mac is sleek, smooth, pleasant, well integrated, solid, stable, and has a good shell. They have great machines with great specs and are well built. They also take some learning to become efficient with.

    Windows on the other hand, is cheap, buggy, ugly, unstable, comes pre-packaged with flashy junk, breaks easily, any child can use it and then break it.

    [–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I completely agree. As a software developer I preferred when I had a Mac whereas our company uses Windows and Microsoft for everything and it just meh.

    Mac was so easy to do everything from the terminal or the search bar.

    [–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 11 points 1 week ago

    Plus I like how they have the Homebrew packaging system to install pretty much anything you need.

    Windows has something similar with chocolatey but it's just not as complete. It's not *nix apps either.

    [–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Windows needs to be big brother watching at all times while forcing ads down your throat.

    Apple just needs a very high price tag.

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    [–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

    For the love of Pete, not this again.

    Many flavors of Linux are more simple and user friendly than Windows or Mac.

    Mac is unix-based and very similar to Linux in many ways.

    Windows is like that car that Homer Simpson designed.

    [–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
    [–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago

    This is Mac

    And this is Windows

    [–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

    I’m gonna say windows is more like a cybertruck truck. Full of bloat, spyware, and half the features are not like to slice a finger off than do what it’s supposed to- and definitely not bullet proof.

    [–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

    windows is the one that should be the toy wheel here.

    macos is unix, and quite solid

    and im a big apple hater.

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    [–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

    I'll take any excuse that I can get to dump this story somewhere. A relative of mine has bought an iMac. She created some videos with it. After some time has passed, the Mac's native Apple media player (I forgot the name) refused to play the videos she has created with the Apple iMac software. But it conveniently pointed her to a 20 € "upgrade" that she could buy to make it work again. She asked me for help, I installed MPV instead. Worked like a charm. On an unrelated note, that thing is glued together, and the storage is soldered on, likewise is the ram.

    "Apple's design is so simple!". Why do people put up with this trash?

    Edit: I forgot to mention all of the videos were in Apple's own .mov format.

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    [–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    As an engineer, I would rather develop on Mac than any other OS. I have shit to do and need to work in a POSIX compliant OS without bloat, while also not worrying about my OS install getting borked arbitrarily because I looked at it wrong.

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    [–] sanderium@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    As much as I hate MacOS I love their interface aesthetic.

    [–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    And it's an official Unix system, which seems to bother some Linux users.

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    [–] Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    It's interesting to see a modern, POSIX compliant, Unix implementation characterized as a children's toy. These arguments are simple minded. I develop on a Mac, and deploy it to Linux in most cases. And yes I do understand that this is also possible on widows now - but not my preference.

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    [–] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

    Windows is most definitely not a fucking viper. Try Reliant Robin

    [–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

    You know macOS ships with a terminal ootb, right? There's a reason it's a massively popular option for devs.

    [–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Lies. I see no cameras and keyloggers on the windows side.

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    [–] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    My 97yo grandma uses Linux without even being aware what OS she's on. Web sites open the same. Telegram works the same.

    Anyone saying Linux isn't user friendly hasn't used it in decades or ever.

    Most Windows/macos users wouldn't be able to install those either so that's a non argument.

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    [–] Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Windows being a viper? Absofuckinglutely not, the viper being a way to powerful, analog and hands on car is the exact opposite of windows. Windows is more comparable to a modern, but badly build, electric car with all of the spyware and the features that comes with that.

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