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I started off as a Windows user, but in college I switched to I think OS X Tiger at the time. To me, it was a pretty impressive upgrade & I had a *nix terminal at my disposal. But imo macOS has been running on the same UX upgrade since it started calling itself OS X.

I think this sentiment largely comes from the era when Microsoft Windows XP was the dominant Windows flavor and also the ME/Vista debacles.

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I switch at around the same time and I had the exact same experience. You can use your Mac pretty much the same way you did 15 years ago. Some of the newer stuff is a little annoying, there’s basically “to much” operating system and it sometimes get in the way.

The article isn’t wrong though, so things do seem a bit weird if you don’t know they work. MacOS is far from perfect, it is however much more consistent than Windows.

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