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Fuck Windows AND MacOS honestly

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[–] [email protected] 143 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (46 children)

>See macOS criticism

>Look inside

>Absolutely no mention of macOS because it's actually Apple hardware criticism

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (25 children)

Well since we're here:

You can't easily remap keys

You can scroll right but not left with the track pad

The delete key doesn't do anything in the finder

There was no window snapping until literally a few months ago

The terminal uses cmd+c instead of cmd+shift+c (really should be ctrl but okay)

The dock sucks when using multiple windows per app

Every app relies on an antiquated menu bar at the top which is straight out of 90s UI

The Fn key is where the ctrl key should be and the alt key is where the command key should be (hardware, can't rebind without addon tho)

You can't control audio levels on external displays (because Apple)

Software does not support multiple displays per port and instead can only have one display per port, meaning in order to have two displays you need one cable for hdmi and one cable for USB-C, can't have two of each.

The mouse acceleration curve is a troll for anyone not using the trackpad, and cannot be adjusted aside from being turned off.

There's a ton more but these were just off the top of my head.

EDIT:

Because multiple people mentioned this, I have a big issue with the command/meta key shortcuts because of Apple's braindead placement of their keys on the keyboard, so its a combined hardware software issue.

I otherwise wouldn't mind having to use command except my pinky has to wrap around to hit alt or I have to shift my entire hand to hit command because using a standard keyboard layout like literally every single other keyboard in existence is too much to implement.

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I'm saying this coming from gaming on ye olde ass cheapo office keyboards for years with no problems, clunky Chinese knockoff keyboards with no problems, and even tiny compressed button keyboards with no problems.

And as others have also shared, I am forced to put up with this crap because of my work. Thankfully, most of my actual work happens inside a nice customized Linux VM, but switching between the host is still required and has been a painful experience. I genuinely gave it a solid shot for several months hoping maybe this was just me never using Mac UI before, but even with all the addons this UI is annoying to use.

I can't run a key rebinder though because the software is essentially a keylogger addon, so coaxing it to run even with IT is a pain, so now I'm probably going to buy another Corsair keyboard I can setup a hardware profile to make this a bit easier when I'm at least docked.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The dock sucks when using multiple windows per app

This made me rage quit using a mac at work

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Lol, nice. I'll never use MacOS again, but thank you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

CMD ` (backtick) will switch between application windows, if that's what was frustrating you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

No, it was that there was no quick way to see what Firefox windows i had open from the dock.

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