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    Just because it’s better than windows doesn’t make it good (lemmy.ml)
    submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    I know a lot of people like macOS, and I'm sure they get a lot done with it. For me however, it's easily my least favorite popular OS. That's even considering the terminal running zsh by default, which is miles ahead of Windows.

    A quirk that recently bit us at work is that Safari has a maximum allowed version based off your OS version. Now if it was just me as a user, I'd download a 3rd party browser. However, as a developer, I have to build solutions that work for every "reasonable" browser. This means I can't use features that every modern browser has, including Safari, because Safari from 4 years ago didn't have it.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    at my last workplace we used a service called browserstack which cost something like 10$ a month, it allows you to run almost any combination of os/browser versions. you can even set it up to access a local server if you’re running one on your device machine for example. took out all the headache of running the specific ie version that the client was reporting bugs on it worked great but you can definitely find similar services to suit your use case

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

    Thanks for the callout! We actually use browerstack too, but only for exceptions like that one. It's not part of our typical process. Really cool software

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    I mean Mac OS has its place. There's a reason so many music producers and coders choose that OS. It's a rock solid stable approach for those use cases.

    That being said, personally I would always prefer Linux but that's mostly because I don't do those things.

    I don't even particularly hate windows, I just like PopOS better

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    I'm a dev and I mainly see issues with removed... Every update breaks some tools the cli tools are ancient, homebrew is slow as hell and breaks quite often, docker is really slow and costs money if you don't know how to avoid that, it's very expensive to get to a certain amount of RAM that costs nothing on PC and so on.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    The first desktop version, Mac OS X 10.0, was released on March 24, 2001. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and all releases from OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion to macOS 14 Sonoma are UNIX 03 certified

    I don't like MacOS, but it's actually able to be called UNIX.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    I'm surprised you don't lose Unix certification with crap like case insensitive filesystem defaults.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    I don't want to be like Stack Overflow, but tbh you have some design problems if you rely on case sensitive filesystems.