For me, I hate having the extra mental overhead of thinking "am I switching windows between apps or in the same app"? I just want to switch windows. I often pick the wrong shortcut.
When you start "hating" additional functionality, that might be a moment to think about whether it's really the service's fault or if you're curmudgeoning it a bit.
I think it's more likely you're an Apple hater, considering I use Windows and macOS daily (and Linux too I guess if you want to count the EC2s I have to SSH to now and then).
Uh... I understand that as an Apple Fanboi you're required blame the user if they don't like Steve Jobs immaculate creation. But as it turns out, I am a user with very basic requirements for my MBP: if an external monitor is plugged in, use it; if a wired ethernet dongle is plugged in, make it available for use without having to set too many defaults; if I hit the power key on an external keyboard, turn on. These are all things I've seen other macs do.
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But you're right. I'm a hater for wanting my MBP to boot and use external monitors.
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Those things are already true for macs generally, your issues notwithstanding (though you seem to flit between criticizing the hardware and the OS, not sure you even know why your issue is happening), and if you think you wouldn't have these issues with Windows, why use an MBP at all? Surely the mighty Bill Gates will save you from your troubles, yeah?
And not for nothing, but Steve Jobs was a prodigiously arrogant asshole who had very little (if anything at all) to do with the Apple of today, and nearly nothing at all to do with how macOS functions now. The man literally killed himself with his own hubris.
Also... as much as I have asked, Bill Gates doesn't come over to my house to help me edit my registry.
(Though in all fairness, I haven't had to do too much registry surgery since Windows 7)
If you read the thread, you'll discover two things:
1. The MBP is a work laptop given to me by a customer to do development on. I would never pick a Mac to develop Linux code, but that's what my customer has done.
2. I'm not a windows user. Or rather, I have used windows at work, but prefer Linux or BSD systems at home.
Additionally... I can assure you Steve Jobs was a prodigious arrogant asshole who has an awful lot to do with Apple.
I'm mostly criticizing the OS. When it sounds like I'm criticizing the hardware, I'm probably criticizing the company's inability to ship hardware with an OS that has drivers that work with that hardware (especially considering they control both the hardware and the OS.)
Why do I need to download a kext and monkey with defaults to make the charger work? This was the kind of thing Macs were supposed to free me from.
You don't, is the point. The fact that you have to do those things (and not a meaningful number of others) make it clear it's a you issue, not a macOS issue.
Again. When you tell me I don't understand my own requirements and that I'm clearly hating on a platform because of course it is the best thing in the world and I just don't understand how good it is... well... that's not a way to influence others.
I am happy that macOS works for you. But I am not you and I have different requirements. Requirements that macOS does not fulfill.
Ok, it's obviously exaggeration. It's a frequent source of annoyance, not hatred.
It is also true that I am a curmudgeon.
I use both macOS and Windows. I think they are both fine operating systems, each has its own annoyances, but I agree with most of the article's points.
I use both, about 50/50. I have a windows desktop and a mac laptop. Perhaps that's why I have difficulty adjusting because I am switching between the two. But I find the windows approach more intuitive since I use a combination of chrome web apps in separate browser windows and desktop apps, I don't like having to think about what type of windows switching I need to do, I just want to switch windows.
You find simpler more intuitive, I get that, but can you understand the possibility here that the more granular control is, in general, an advantage to most folks?
