Too true. MacOS is the one place you can get a UNIX toolchain in a stable environment. If something works on my Mac, it works on my coworker’s Mac. If something works on Ubuntu but you’re using Nix… Uh, YMMV.

I love Linux, but if you’re gonna use it as a desktop OS, you pretty much accept that you now have a part-time job keeping up on Linux news to deal with the fact that each component of your system is in a perpetual state of “deprecated support for The Old Way, and experimental support for The New Way”.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (18 children)

MacOS is trash. An OS' primary job is managing applications and their windows and MacOS provides the most utterly unintuitive and non functional UX, the instant you plug in an external monitor.

It's an OS designed for people writing word docs on their laptop at Starbucks, not for getting real work done.

Hell, try and enable viewing hidden files and folders in all finder and file picker windows. Oh wait, you can't!

You can use a terminal command to enable them in basic finder windows, but they'll still always be hidden in application's file pickers which use Finder, because lord forbid Apple treats their users like adults.

[–] sqibkw 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just gonna call out that programming isn't the only "real work" in the world.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was salty when I wrote my original comment and completely agree. There is tons of real work that only requires focusing on a single window at a time. My problem with MacOS is just that it doesn't accomodate workflows that require multiple windows / monitors very well.

[–] sqibkw 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oh my God yes. I used a MacBook for work and it was a two-step nightmare to get it to connect to multiple monitors.

First, I had to plug multiple type-C cables in, one for each monitor, since Mac can't output multiple displays through a dock. And getting it to actually show on all monitors was a finicky process at best.

And then, every time I'd take it off the desk and put it back, all my windows and workspaces would be all jumbled up, on the wrong monitors, etc.

I needed to install Rectangle just so I could have a keyboard shortcut to snap a window back onto the screen, since sometimes they'd be inaccessible off the end of the screen.

Mac support for multiple monitors is not a smooth experience, to say the least.

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