My friend was trying to pitch anal sex to me, and one of the things he said was - "Well, the anus might adjust and accommodate to you inserting stuff in it, but it doesn't mean it likes things shoved into it."
That's exactly how I feel about the crappy design changes that Windows and macOS have been increasingly forcing on us. We get used to it not because we like it, but often because there is no other way.
As a long time Windows user migrant to macOS, I find this more true of macOS now (it really pisses me off that you still can't maximise a window consistently on macOS). Both get a lot of things right, but I feel Windows UI still has an edge (if you choose to ignore Windows 8). (For the Apple lovers - I say this confidently after I deliberately chose not to customize macOS to be like Windows And really embraced the whole "Apple way of doing things" to really experience if it is better. I can honestly say no, it isn't.)
But just as the Americans stubbornly decided to drive on the right when the the rest of the world drove on the left, Windows and macOS too deliberately choose different UI paradigm and approach more for business reasons than functional ones.
It's often irritating because sometimes it feels as if the changes in UI are just a way to try to differentiate the products without any improvement in usability - it took me nearly a year and half to get as comfortable with macOS as I was with Windows. But I still feel Windows UI is more productive, and less irritating, than macOS. (The only thing I like on the macOS desktop environment is the unified Menubar on top and Spotlight.)
Option click plus window button in top left of window to maximise without going into full screen. Everywhere except Britain and Japan drives on the right.
We’re way of from the subject at hand, but driving at the left is not that rare. A couple of former British colonies drive at the left, too (e.g. Australia, India, and South Africa) plus a few countries such as Indonesia, Suriname and Thailand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic)
I guess that’s 15% to 20% of the world’s population.
My point was that sometimes these decisions are made for other reasons than safety or practicality. Just as Windows OS keeps it window control on the top-right corner while macOS chooses to keep it on the top-left corner. Driving left or right seems to be more of a political decision (when Americans fought the British) just as the UI choices on Windows and macOS sometimes seem to be just to differentiate their product and make it difficult for the users to easily migrate to the other platform.
Try it with Safari - it doesn't work. Safari only maximises the window vertically and not horizontally. That is why I said there is no consistent way of maximising windows on macOS.
That's exactly how I feel about the crappy design changes that Windows and macOS have been increasingly forcing on us. We get used to it not because we like it, but often because there is no other way.
As a long time Windows user migrant to macOS, I find this more true of macOS now (it really pisses me off that you still can't maximise a window consistently on macOS). Both get a lot of things right, but I feel Windows UI still has an edge (if you choose to ignore Windows 8). (For the Apple lovers - I say this confidently after I deliberately chose not to customize macOS to be like Windows And really embraced the whole "Apple way of doing things" to really experience if it is better. I can honestly say no, it isn't.)
But just as the Americans stubbornly decided to drive on the right when the the rest of the world drove on the left, Windows and macOS too deliberately choose different UI paradigm and approach more for business reasons than functional ones.
It's often irritating because sometimes it feels as if the changes in UI are just a way to try to differentiate the products without any improvement in usability - it took me nearly a year and half to get as comfortable with macOS as I was with Windows. But I still feel Windows UI is more productive, and less irritating, than macOS. (The only thing I like on the macOS desktop environment is the unified Menubar on top and Spotlight.)