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MacBook Neo review: Apple puts every $600 Windows PC to shame (www.engadget.com)
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[–] nobody_1677@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

MacOS is UNIX, but is not the best implementation of UNIX.

The UNIX tools it ships are extremely old. For example, it comes with GNU Screen, which I was using but was having same strange issues with. It turned out it uses a version from 2006... so I had to brew install a modern version.

And I'm personally not the biggest fan of MacOS. It's certainly better than Windows thanks to Apple mostly treating the user with basic respect (no ads), but the desktop/window manager is just super quirky. No other desktop, whether it be Windows or any desktop on Linux behaves quite like it. They tend to only adopt the nicer features while keeping a UX that feels closer to Windows. For example, MacOS quirky/unique in doing

  • Requiring a click to activate a window (with no option to change this behavior)
  • Fullscreening a window moves it to its own space
  • Closing an app's window does not close the app itself for the majority of apps
    • Perhaps not the biggest deal if the goal is app startup speed for heavily used apps, but unnecessary for rarely used apps and clutters the dock)
    • Also can be quite annoying since it will drag you to the last space you used the app on
  • Minimized windows show on dock as previews
    • Not that of an idea, but strange since you now have two ways to bring the app back: clicking on the app icon itself or the minimized preview