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I'm asking this genuinely because I want to like apple. What do you do that you can't on Linux or Windows? I love their hardware, I just don't see a need for the software. (I want a MacBook air with Linux mint very badly)
Excuse the waffle - I run windows, Linux and Mac boxes. The software I use for work will only run on windows and Mac, does not work well with any Linux virt windows app (though people are constantly trying). Windows is fine, I don’t particularly care for osx. I simply don’t like Microsoft attitude to me a user of their product. Constantly asking if I want to enable their bullshit on the installer for system updates, win 11 nag screens, moving the email client to their web version where you have to agree to store your own mail accounts on their server, and this recall thing which I assume is to feed their ai.
OSX allows me to disable most things. I’m sure it will get shittier as well, but for the moment it works as well as my current pc. I do like apple hardware, not a fan of iOS.
Yes so same ideals on my end. I want to like OSx but there's just something....empty about it.
It’s the most highly optimised software available for consumer computers. Much easier when you support a very limited set of devices which you have compete hardware control over.
It is UNIX so very similar to using Linux when you use a terminal.
The UI is very polished and very stable. MacOS has not changed how the UI works or feels in a long time, during which windows and Linux (gnome/kde) have changed a lot. Both becoming more like MacOS. macOS has changed a little mostly features and styling.
It has wide support, including support for priority programs that Linux does not. Apple appears and feels like they respect user privacy much better than Windows. You feel like you paid for the product and you are the customer. Unlike windows, where you pay to be exploited for data harvesting to the real customer advertisers. Apple is in many ways in between windows and Linux. Not as free and open, but not as exploitive and limited as windows. It’s a common misconception that MacOS is somehow locked down or walled off, it’s less locked down and walled off than windows. But like Linux it requires some terminal know how.
Not sure why I got downvoted for asking a genuine question....
So my latest testing was Catalina. But I didn't give it an honest go as it was a work laptop for emails.
My last serious romp was 10.6.8, I looved 10.6.8 on the white plastic MacBook I had. I wish I could go back to that form factor.
What is gaming like on mac now adays?
Gaming: non existent with no improvements in sight.
They're purely work machines.
Hmmm. That's a shame, I need the functionality of lite gaming. Like some halo 1, RTC, FTL.
I really like their hardware.