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Linux users switching back to Linux after 10 minutes of using Windows (thelemmy.club)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1353877/linux-users-switching-back-to-linux-after-10-minutes-of-using-windows

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[–] 44 points 1 day ago* (4 children)

I gotta say I might dislike Microsoft more than Apple...

But I kiss ground returning to Linux or Windows after being stuck on Mac OS.

Windows is an old comfort. I know all the shortcuts. I hate their brand, ethos, etc.

But when I am stuck using an Apple product I want to rip off my fucking skin. Fuck your command key, stop trying to be special. Your system tray is obnoxious. I hate your unified application menu bar, it makes no sense with un-maximized windows. You got rid of the single button mouse because yeah obviously that was stupid, why not get rid of the rest? Firewire? Fuck off. Those fucking charging cables. Fuck. Off.

Fuck Microsoft, but Apple don't catch enough hate. Fuck them too for their benign prison of an ecosystem.

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Sorry. I get way more bent out of shape having to use macos or ios for work than I do windows. Way more. Fuck em both. I can handle powershell. I cannot handle a fucking circus of bullshit.

Every Mac I must use at work gets a Linux VM. I will not tolerate their operating systems. I don't do the same for windows at work. I tolerate it.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    I feel this post in my heart and just wanted to say I support you 100%.

    What I really hate about macOS (and iOS) is Apple prioritizing fancy design over functionality. Liquid Glass is just bad UI with shitty contrast, to the point where they had to dial it down before the final release to make it somewhat useable. And doing things like hiding the username field in Apple Mail so you have to enter a fail state first before it gets shown to you is absolute garbage. Apps don't have to look as clean as possible, they have to be fucking functional.

    ...and why are we still including .DS_Store files when zipping a directory and creating them on network drives? What is this? 2001 Windows XP with its useless Thumbs.db files? Even Microsoft has long moved on from storing thumbnails in this way.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Mac OS is just NeXTStep (i.e. UNIX) with a candy coating. It's annoyingly proprietary (especially these days, compared to the early OS X era) but it's fine for a work machine.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

    It vaguely looks like Unix until you start to look at the directories (which aren't standard any more), try to read the logs (which are fucking useless and look like what Windows outputs), or dig at anything beyond the shell. Then you see that they've completely scrambled the system. It's infuriating.
    I once got an Apple laptop around the time they switched away from Intel chips, I lasted about four months with it before running back to KDE. I hated that thing with a passion. And don't get me started on the Apple software.

    Maybe it got better since, maybe not, doesn't matter, I won't get near one of those things again.

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  • [–] 1 point 18 hours ago (1 child)

    I once got an Apple laptop around the time they switched away from Intel chips, I lasted about four months with it before running back to KDE.

    That's well into the time that they were getting worse. They were good in the PowerPC G3/4/5 era, when they were doing things like making laptops that could have the RAM upgraded without even needing a tool. They were also trying to be taken more seriously for business, so they had stuff like the XServe and cared about scripting (putting effort into Applescript/Automator APIs for their apps) and such.

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  • [–] 1 point 17 hours ago

    The hardware was kind of ok, it's really with the software that I had issues.

    As an aside I tried to configure their email client for a friend a year or so ago and I've never seen such a convoluted piece of software. I thought accessibility was their thing, this was astoundingly Byzantine. Never seen anything like it before or since (in that class of software).

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