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MaCOS is an ugly OS with anti-consumer features. Sure, it's slightly more open than iOS, but you don't have to move your .exe or .tar.gz files to a trusted folder to install them.
Anti-consumer "features" yes, but I wouldn't call it ugly, I'd consider it rather pretty and polished...on the surface level anyways. Once you need to do anything even approaching "power user" or enterprise, however, the illusion shatters and then it's ugly
I have only used it a few times, on other people's machines, and I guess it's just a matter of preference, but I felt the user interface was too 'polished', it took forever to do stuff as everything has its own long transition, and the transparency makes it hard to see stuff, and there is like no padding, making it easier to misclick.
Nope, just gotta run basically everything as administrator to the point most folks don't even think about it anymore.