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Agreed one hundred percent. Why extremely biased rant from specific DE subreddit (also biased) gets so many upvotes? Who cares?

My additions:

* Poor to non-existing window tiling (at least Rectangle has very good defaults and works well)

There are apps for that, like writer mentioned - so what's the problem? I'd argue that using Expose, Mission Control, Multiple desktops and controlling them with touchpad swipes is faster, more convenient, more intuitive and flexible than tilling window management, but it's personal biased opinion, just like the writer's.

* Missing native Alt+Tab and individual window switching (only does app switching)

I either don't understand the problem or what's wrong with `cmd-tab` for app switching and `cmd-~` for app window switching.

* Finder keyboard shortcuts not shown in context menu (makes them far less discoverable)

Most, if not all, apps have their keyboard shortcuts shown in the menu bar next to menu bar items.

* Lack of native clipboard

To be fair - I am intrigued what does writer mean with `native clipboard`? Some sort of built-in app for clipboard management?

* Finder's weird shortcuts for rename vs open file (no way to open a file with keyboard?)

`cmd-o` to open, `enter/return` to rename, `space` to quick look. Just because OP is not used to different shortcuts - does not mean it's weird. Also many shortcuts are very consistent throughout whole system and throughout different apps.

After writing all this - I feel like I fell for the troll [0], but will leave my opinions as it may help for other Macos beginners. IMHO it's just a thing of muscle memory and learned workflows.

[0] I think it's trolling, because clearly he/she haven't read anything about Macos, because there are plenty of sources (even official ones) for first time Macos users. Something like hiding menu bar and/or dock are the most easiest things that you can do while skimming through `System preferences` on your own. Original writer seemingly opened Macbook for a first time, it didn't work same as KDE so he/she decided to rant about it on reddit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> I either don't understand the problem or what's wrong with `cmd-tab` for app switching and `cmd-~` for app window switching.

The fact that they have two different shortcuts and you need to think about which one to use. It's a reasonable complaint in my mind, if you're used to only thinking about windows, now you have to spend extra brain power on thinking if you want to change app or window within the same app.

The reverse also applies, if you're always thinking in terms of windows grouped by app, then being forced to iterate all windows is annoying.

It really comes down to your mental model and what you are used too. If you try something else, it will most likely require deliberate effort to get used to it.

It's why I can only work in Linux. I'm too old to change my ways at this point, it's not worth the effort. When they finally kill X in 10-15 years, I'll hopefully be retired.

> * Lack of native clipboard

> To be fair - I am intrigued what does writer mean with `native clipboard`? Some sort of built-in app for clipboard management?

You don't know native clipboard? It's like a universal second, "quick" clipboard in Linux. You select something somewhere - copied. You middle click somewhere - pasted. It's so much faster and super convenient, it supports terminal and is independent of the "main" clipboard so that you can (ab)use it to gain two clipboards at the same time if you so wish.

Being a Linux guy and having used MacOS for the last few years at work. I think what the OP is talking about is the clipboard history. It was one of my missing features when I start. I found Maccy [1] and that solved any issue I had.

[1] https://maccy.app/

Do keep in mind in macOS you have `pbcopy` and `pbpaste` at the command line, though, for interoperability, and with Linux-style mere highlight, you wouldn’t then be able to type in a terminal without losing the selection.

macOS Terminal actually supports middle-click insert. It's quite nice, but it only works inside Terminal. It's useful as a second clipboard.

> `cmd-o` to open

I always use Command+Down.

>Cmd-shift-G or Go > Go to folder isn't easy enough? What's KDE's super brilliant solution?

Not sure about KDE, but every OS (admittedly not many), other than Apple's macOS and previous iteraitions I've used, have had an address bar with the file path. Both of the options you mentioned weren't obvious to me and I only found out about them from your comment.

This isn't only an issue of familiarity but also an issue of features being discoverable.

It's not obvious to me that the address bar in windows explorer sometimes behaves like breadcrumbs and sometimes becomes a text box. It's a very subtle behavior, but I'm sure for windows users it's totally discoverable and intuitive.

Finder has a breadcrumb you can enable. It's in View > Show Path Bar. It's for sure a discovery issue. MacOS assumes you've always been using it.

Discoverability is a holy grail. With a list of features that has been expanding since 1984, you can't expect them all to be discoverable. And this one isn't a very frequent use case for normal users.

KDE does have a different target audience from macOS and Windows, but even as a dev/architect/sysadmin, I'm not sure if I would have found it. I've got a GNOME setup at work, but no idea if it has a similar feature.

As a person, who is using Mac for close to three years, I have to admit that discoverability of keyboard shortcuts (or even existence of such - navigating apps' menus, for example) on OS X is close to zero.

> And this one isn't a very frequent use case for normal users

The Finder's Go menu seems like a reasonably discoverable location.

That being said.... I kind of wish you could type and tab-complete paths in the Find window (cmd-F in the Finder) and Spotlight (cmd-space in any app.)

> What does that mean? There's no tray bar. Is it the menu? Is it the Dock? In both cases, it's untrue, or the writer means something else.

They're clearly talking about the area on the right of the menu bar. You know, the one you can't (temporarily) hide entries for without a third-party app, which is functionality that exists in both Windows and KDE.

You can drag cmd-drag them out, or configure them via their settings (system icons are in the Settings app, others in their own apps). Some applications don't support that, and are always present, that's true.

For moving files between folders tabs in Finder works fine, you don't even need a new window.

> How does this particular list of very minor gripes get so many upvotes?

By being on kde subreddit. Obviously the post is preaching to the choir there.

> Taking screenshots requires to click the preview in order to copy to clipboard, which also causes to save it to Desktop. > No, it doesn't.

How do you take a screenshot that saves the screenshot to a specific spot that isn't the Desktop and ALSO stores the screenshot in the clipboard?

cmd+shift+3/4 doesn't store the screenshot in the clipboard. It just stores in on the Desktop. You can click the preview and it will move it into the clipboard as well as save it.

The other method, that puts the screenshot directly into the clipboard with ctrl+cmd+shit+3/4 but it doesn't save the screenshot.

What's the single keyboard shortcut command to take a screenshot and have it saved to your machine as well as have it stored in your clipboard?

I'll enjoy watching people down vote learning and knowledge sharing.

The save location for cmd+shift+{3,4} can be configured through the command line.

    defaults write com.apple.screencapture location <path>

There is apparently a settings menu inside the Screenshot app now that allows this as well, though I found the above solution before the settings in that app came about.

For those wondering: cmd-shift-5 is the shortcut the very configurable Screenshot app, which allows you to do things like save to folder, clipboard, or straight to mail and more.

I remember Mac fans making a big deal when that app came out, decades after KDE got the feature. The disproportionate celebration and the impressively un-mnemonic, un-discoverable shortcut both stood out to me at the time.

> How does this particular list of very minor gripes get so many upvotes?

It gets upvotes from the hurr durr Apple bad crowd.

I mean the title should read "Man confuses personal habits with a product design degree"