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I've used both a lot. iPads are good, they get the job done. Macs piss me off
That’s very interesting to me. iPads are essentially toys, Mac’s can actually do real work.
That's the thing, they both feel like toys to me. I get frustrated by MacOS because it feels like the interface is fighting me at every step and I can't "just do something" the normal fast way. I had to use one very frequently at work, so you'd think I'd get used to it eventually, but I just got increasingly more frustrated every day
But on an iPad I don't care as much that everything is weird. Maybe because I don't try and do anything complicated on it. Like I basically just use it as a mini TV to watch YouTube or use apps. One time I installed a word processor and IDE on my iPad and also got similarly annoyed with it like Mac OS.
I suppose I just do not gel with any Apple OS in a productive setting. It feels extremely unintuitive and I have to carefully think about everything I do and how to do it. Though I am spoiled by Linux nowadays, and I'm used to how computers worked 20+ years ago. I don't like it when things try and help me, it just slows me down. Just give me the file system and command line lol. I want to understand and feel everything that's happening in the computer
Apologies if I make any mistakes in this message, I'm only semi-conscious right now from exhaustion and I don't trust my sentence structure