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macOS is Hot Garbage: misleading, awkward, or just plain broken

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11 pointsdaveaiello8 comments

I find a lot less to not like about MacOS than Window. I get some of his complaints and like the three bugs he found should be fixed, but "Hot Garbage"? Really?

I like Apple hardware but I think MacOS, iTunes in such are on a spectrum between "meh", trash, and malware. I'd contrast that to iOS which is really best-of-breed and reminds one why the Android logo is a trashcan.

Seems like the author of this blog used MacOS for a grand total of 5 seconds before writing this post.

"Lacks cut and paste" - lol, what a maroon.

> Technically there is a way to cut-and-paste, but it’s not what you‘d expect. It’s not cut and paste. macOS has copy and disregard-copy-actually-move-instead. Holding down the option key reveals this extra menu item.

I feel like they address this here, but I don't use macOS. Is there really a cut and paste option in Finder they missed? Or what is wrong there?

Seems a bit overstating how important these little annoyances are. It's fair criticism, but I don't see how they discredit MacOS as a whole.

I used to use Windows, did the linux things for while, now ~6 years MacOS and for me it has been great and still is.

There are some quirks (like all OS's have), but in my day to day, no serious complaints.

I think macOS more or less gets the amount of R&D investment that its platform revenue justifies.

I also think that Apple senior management realizes that macOS has to get more R&D investment than it does currently in order to satisfy iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, WatchOS, HomeOS developers. But they will only make increased investment in proportion to the overall installed-base growth of macOS devices.

I use macOS because I do mostly web site and services development, and I consider myself most productive in all aspects of computing on the macOS platform. And, yea, there are things I can't do and things that aren't as smooth as they could be on macOS. But that doesn't make the operating system user experience hot garbage.

I moved to mac to avoid thinking about config file from linux and drivers from windows. And it does exactly that.

This. Also the same reason why I don't daily drive linux even though I use it all the time remotely as so many on HN do.

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