That’s what a lot of people want… teams of people who sit around all day thinking of shit that will make the system a bit better to use, who have other teams of people that can make it happen… and a way to submit ideas to those teams (I submitted an idea which ended up in iOS on the next release a year later). Then as a user, you get an update with the new features and go, “well hell, I didn’t even know I wanted this, but it sure is making my life easier.” Or in the case of my iOS request, “awesome, they added my request and tweaked it to make it even better. Now I can remove my less elegant solution.” All it cost me was the 5 minutes to fill out the feedback form.
What’s wrong with that?
And sure, not everything someone requests is going to be implemented. I submitted another request around Apple Music that I think is a great idea, but hasn’t been done. But I’m not going to spend my free time coding it up myself to stick it in some opensource app either. A vast majority of people are dependent on the developers to make the decisions for them on what goes into their operating system and apps, regardless of how open the systems are. I’ll write some scripts here and there to tweak things to my liking, but that’s about as far as I’m willing to go, and even that is much further than a vast majority of the population.
When I started using MacOS, I was prepared for annoying design decisions that I would eventually get used to. I was not prepared for inconsistencies, bugs, and a significant loss of features and functionality. MacOS is a terrible operating system.
Still doesn’t support resolution scaling, no window snapping, beach ball of death happens easily, can’t disable the obnoxious caps lock timer (which is awful for writing SQL).
Mac is only good for development because the terminal is Unix based and the M1 has amazing battery life. Otherwise I hate it.
I developed in a linux enviorment on a chromebook before, its okay, even in developer mode, i still felt restricted in what I could do. (Remeber, ARM isnt x86, make shure you get things compiled for ARM if possablez) If id be less crashy, it may be better. Youd have to be affixed to a google account tho.
There are certain things you have to do the Apple-way, which can take time to learn and accept, I will readily admit that. I think every system has some degree of this. Some people are more willing to accept those things than others. Every system also has some bugs and inconsistencies, Linux and Windows are also far from perfect in this area. I’m not sure what you’re comparing macOS to that doesn’t have inconsistencies or bugs.
As someone who switches between Windows, Mac, and Linux (KDE), the every-day bugs with Mac OS are far more annoying to me than the bugs in the other two.
In my experience when I find a bug in Windows or Linux, it’s normally quite a significant bug, but it’s an edge case that you only run into occasionally (e.g. WSL used to lock up completely on Windows 11 when hibernating).
When I find a bug on MacOS, it’s normally something minor, but in something I do all the time, so it ends up being more frustrating (e.g. the lock ups and stuttering every few seconds when Ventura was quite new, oh boy that was annoying).
Maybe it depends on usage patterns or something. I have also use macOS, Windows, and Linux regularly over the past 20 years and have had the opposite experience. I found the most annoying little bugs in Linux and the fewest in macOS. Frequent pinwheels on macOS can be infuriating, if that’s what you were having with Ventura. I can understand that, though I haven’t experienced it as a normal thing in probably 10 years.
I do currently have one really major annoying issue on macOS, but it’s my work laptop and I’m 99.9999% sure it’s related to some horse shit the company has installed on there, and the bug is related to another piece of corporate software, so I blame my company and terrible software choices, not the OS itself. Windows at work was the same way, our IT department can turn any OS to junk. Linux at work has been mostly on servers, and has had it’s own bugs, which I guess are more annoying since when those bugs crop up it can lead to a production outage.
I wish it was pinwheels, sadly it was just complete lockups, as in, not even the mouse would move. It got worse and was most noticeable when an external monitor was attached.
iOS doesn’t let me choose which map app an address opens in. And I can’t select text in iMessage so I can’t copy and paste the address unless the person was smart enough to send it as a separate message.
There are two examples of why this is bad. I can think of plenty more with just my daily use of iOS.
That’s what a lot of people want… teams of people who sit around all day thinking of shit that will make the system a bit better to use, who have other teams of people that can make it happen… and a way to submit ideas to those teams (I submitted an idea which ended up in iOS on the next release a year later). Then as a user, you get an update with the new features and go, “well hell, I didn’t even know I wanted this, but it sure is making my life easier.” Or in the case of my iOS request, “awesome, they added my request and tweaked it to make it even better. Now I can remove my less elegant solution.” All it cost me was the 5 minutes to fill out the feedback form.
What’s wrong with that?
And sure, not everything someone requests is going to be implemented. I submitted another request around Apple Music that I think is a great idea, but hasn’t been done. But I’m not going to spend my free time coding it up myself to stick it in some opensource app either. A vast majority of people are dependent on the developers to make the decisions for them on what goes into their operating system and apps, regardless of how open the systems are. I’ll write some scripts here and there to tweak things to my liking, but that’s about as far as I’m willing to go, and even that is much further than a vast majority of the population.
When I started using MacOS, I was prepared for annoying design decisions that I would eventually get used to. I was not prepared for inconsistencies, bugs, and a significant loss of features and functionality. MacOS is a terrible operating system.
Still doesn’t support resolution scaling, no window snapping, beach ball of death happens easily, can’t disable the obnoxious caps lock timer (which is awful for writing SQL).
Mac is only good for development because the terminal is Unix based and the M1 has amazing battery life. Otherwise I hate it.
I developed in a linux enviorment on a chromebook before, its okay, even in developer mode, i still felt restricted in what I could do. (Remeber, ARM isnt x86, make shure you get things compiled for ARM if possablez) If id be less crashy, it may be better. Youd have to be affixed to a google account tho.
There are certain things you have to do the Apple-way, which can take time to learn and accept, I will readily admit that. I think every system has some degree of this. Some people are more willing to accept those things than others. Every system also has some bugs and inconsistencies, Linux and Windows are also far from perfect in this area. I’m not sure what you’re comparing macOS to that doesn’t have inconsistencies or bugs.
As someone who switches between Windows, Mac, and Linux (KDE), the every-day bugs with Mac OS are far more annoying to me than the bugs in the other two.
In my experience when I find a bug in Windows or Linux, it’s normally quite a significant bug, but it’s an edge case that you only run into occasionally (e.g. WSL used to lock up completely on Windows 11 when hibernating).
When I find a bug on MacOS, it’s normally something minor, but in something I do all the time, so it ends up being more frustrating (e.g. the lock ups and stuttering every few seconds when Ventura was quite new, oh boy that was annoying).
Maybe it depends on usage patterns or something. I have also use macOS, Windows, and Linux regularly over the past 20 years and have had the opposite experience. I found the most annoying little bugs in Linux and the fewest in macOS. Frequent pinwheels on macOS can be infuriating, if that’s what you were having with Ventura. I can understand that, though I haven’t experienced it as a normal thing in probably 10 years.
I do currently have one really major annoying issue on macOS, but it’s my work laptop and I’m 99.9999% sure it’s related to some horse shit the company has installed on there, and the bug is related to another piece of corporate software, so I blame my company and terrible software choices, not the OS itself. Windows at work was the same way, our IT department can turn any OS to junk. Linux at work has been mostly on servers, and has had it’s own bugs, which I guess are more annoying since when those bugs crop up it can lead to a production outage.
I wish it was pinwheels, sadly it was just complete lockups, as in, not even the mouse would move. It got worse and was most noticeable when an external monitor was attached.
That sucks. Hopefully it’s not still happening. I’ve had that a few times on I think every OS, but it’s been a long time and never a regular thing.
iOS doesn’t let me choose which map app an address opens in. And I can’t select text in iMessage so I can’t copy and paste the address unless the person was smart enough to send it as a separate message.
There are two examples of why this is bad. I can think of plenty more with just my daily use of iOS.
Long Press -> Copy Address.
Oh my god THANK YOU!! I’ve been so annoyed by this 🙏