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You are prepared to fight the system, while you don’t know why it is doing what it is doing and what you are gaining by fighting.

Your arguments are mostly ‘I’m used to Windows doing X so that’s what I want on the Mac.’ If you want Windows, use Windows, that’s a lot easier than trying to get Mac OS to be Windows. It’s not Windows, if you can get used to what it is you’ll have a great time and if not you’ll end up frustrating yourself.

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This smacks of the typical Apple, "you're holding it wrong" condescension. I understand why MacOS does things the way it does most of the time. That doesn't mean that I can't still find it frustrating.

Yes, unironically. The computer should adapt to me, not vice versa. It exists entirely to do things I tell it to do.

If you want a computer that does exactly what you want the way you think you want it, clearly you should not get a Mac.

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