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It would be nice if macOS had some competition.

As someone that uses Linux on my home computer home and has to use MacOS at work, I actually laughed at this comment.

MacOS is awful. I would rather use Windows than this crap.

I also use Linux for personal computers and have a company-issued MacBook. I definitely prefer Linux over MacOS but you couldn’t pay me to use Windows.

Windows 10 with WSL was at least serviceable for the most part, and is useful for gaming at least.

Make no mistake, I have no love left for Windows. Discussing Windows vs MacOS is like discussing which piece of turd smells worse.

To be fair, if the turd is from different animals the smell of one might be wildly stronger than the other.

But yeah, I'm on linux too. Although I would love to have a distro with main support for kde.

What are the things that you find awful about MacOS?

- Commandline tools are gratuitously a little bit different.

- I never managed to find an usable keyboard shortcut for some GUI operations.

- Things that worked stopped working after an update because of security.

No joke, this was my main hope for fuschia. I don’t think Linux or the BSDs can compete without a total re-think of their multimedia and GUI stacks (and the needed re-think does not look like Wayland).

I’m no longer too hopeful that Fuscia will be it, with its snail’s-pace development and seemingly having been back-burnered on top of that, but it’s what I’d hoped to get out of it.

Wayland is close to macOS windowing, just like systemd is close to launchd. That’s how open source can approach the competence of macOS, or Windows for that matter.

> the competence of macOS, or Windows

I hope that open source stays as far as possible from "the competence of macOS, or Windows".

Windows is a PITA to use.

And yet it can render flawless frames and handle background services, just like macOS. The policy choices are sometimes unfortunate, for sure.

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