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[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (32 children)

In what ways does it aggressively get in your way?

[–] phonics@lemmy.world 62 points 1 month ago (27 children)

I hate the multi desktop stuff.

Drag a window to top of screen and it doesn't snap full screen fast enough or consistantly.

Doesn't like to display 1 window across 2 screens.

Sometimes a window will shoot off to the side past the visible desktop for god knows what reason.

You can't nativly set up the mouse scroll to work in reverse direction to the touch pad.

I'm still not sure how to uninstall things.

When my headphone cable is plugged in and I turn on the Mac it insists to make the boot sound though the speakers as an advertizment to the world that there is a Mac around.

If I click x on a browser or app, it doesnt actually shut the program, it just minimizes it.

I can't easily see the size of hard drives/folders and how much space is left available.

Files are just scattered willy nilly in a folder instead of snapped to a grid unless I set that folders defaults...per folder?! Instead of across the whole OS

They are my personal top of mind gripes.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

These seem like mostly familiarity issues, where Windows issues are malicious in nature.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

No, OS X aggressively resists customization or convenience. There's the Apple way to do pretty much everything and the painful way which is anything but the Apple way. Windows is anti-consumer because they want to harvest your data and cram ads down your throat. OS X just doesn't care what you want or what you would prefer and will actively punish you if you attempt to deviate from the way it thinks you should be doing things. If something doesn't work the way you want tough, OS X makes you adapt to it rather than trying to adapt to you.

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