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Still light years ahead of whatever they use on Windows. To each their own.

I actually like APT on ubuntu (and probably Debian), but the disk-image-based install mechanism of MacOS is just WEIRD.

Windows has installers, which makes since for "installing", but I agree there is a lot of inconsistency in windows installers. And at least Mac is consistently weird.

Well, it used to be consistent, maybe back in the days of System 6. Nowadays some apps you install from the App Store, some you install by opening a disk image and dragging to Applications, some you install by running an installer, some you install via Homebrew...

I recently switched to a Macbook. Formerly used mostly linux, with an occasional boot into Windows for gaming now and then, so it's not like I'm comparing to some nirvana experience here (linux is laughably bad and unintuitive). I've used a macbook for work for over 6 years now, though.

The MacOS desktop is...a poor experience even compared with linux. And don't get me started on the Finder app. That has to be one of the most infuriatingly bad applications I've ever used. It's opinionated in mostly the wrong ways and is cumbersome to use to navigate around to actually find anything.

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