1. Linux
  2. TempleOS
  3. Mac
  4. Intel Management Engine
  5. W.*

EDIT: I’ll add any system that gets at least five votes in the comments. Let’s roll.

  • port888@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    This post is 2 years old. Why is a bunch of posts from this community suddenly showing up as Hot?

    • datendefekt@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 years ago

      When I installed BeOS on my laptop in the late 90s it was a revelation, a glimpse of what the future of computing could be. A cleanly designed OS without any of the bloat of traditional OSes. Looking at how it turned out just makes me so sad. It’s like a top notch ace in school that took a few bad life decisions and ended up in a dead end job. So much promise squandered…

  • masterspace@lemmy.ca
    54·
    1 year ago

    It is insane to pick MacOS over Windows in this day and age. It’s a user experience nightmare.

    Why the fuck does the OS reserve an inch at the bottom for a dock that doesn’t even tell me what windows are open AND a mandatory title bar at the top AND forces all windows to have their own title bar at the top?

    Use Edge or Firefox with vertical tabs on Windows and you legit have like 20% more screen real estate than OSX. And don’t even get me started on window snapping or how every window has a full screen zoom button that none need.

    • george@midwest.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      I’m more comfortable with macOS than Windows and find many of the UX patterns on Windows to be grating. It doesn’t mean Windows is insane, just that I’m more accustomed to the macOS patterns.

      FWIW the Dock can be hidden, and the menu bar at the top can hide as well when an app is in full screen mode.

      • masterspace@lemmy.ca
        43·
        1 year ago

        FWIW the Dock can be hidden

        Then I have no way of even knowing what apps are running, let alone what windows.

        and the menu bar at the top can hide as well when an app is in full screen mode.

        And then both my other monitors are black and unusable.

        • george@midwest.social
          61·
          1 year ago

          Neither of those assertions are true, I don’t think you’re arguing from an informed position.

          • masterspace@lemmy.ca
            31·
            1 year ago

            They objectively are. If you hide the dock there is zero onscreen glanceable indicator to tell you what windows and apps are running, and full screen makes external monitors go black and be unusable until you exit.

              • masterspace@lemmy.ca
                21·
                1 year ago

                Literally just did it. Press the green button, app goes full screen, other two monitors turn black. Same thing happens when someone starts screensharing with zoom and it goes full screen.

                • NightAuthor@beehaw.org
                  4·
                  1 year ago

                  Is it the application you’re using? Something bugged on your system? Is it an older system where maybe that was a shortcoming?

                  I pulled up my Mac which I use to use with multiple monitors many times and tested again to ensure I wasn’t crazy and nope. I can have two different full screen apps open at the same time, one on each monitor.

                  Or a full screen on one, and the other just showing windowed applications with my dock visible.

        • Korne127@lemmy.world
          61·
          1 year ago

          I’m 21, but of all my friends (using Linux, Windows and macOS) I think no-one would say that UI is the strength of Windows and weakness of macOS.

          To be fair, your comment sounds like you’re (rather) accustomed to Windows. Every operating system works differently, has different settings, etc. and you need to get used to their own way how you do stuff. If you come from Windows to macOS and expect it to be the same and be against every difference, yeah, you’ll think Windows has the better UI.

          • masterspace@lemmy.ca
            4·
            1 year ago

            What I listed aren’t just customary ways of doing things, they’re objectively bad UX patterns.

            Forcing 3 different horizontal bars on a screen that is wider than it is long needs a reason and justification to be there, one that MacOS does not have in the face of Windows’ simplified yet more useful layout.

            I used Windows most of my life but have used MacOS day in day out for the past several years for work, and it’s worse at its main job of actually managing your day to day applications.

            Windows has actually improved enormously over the past 5-10 years in terms of window management, with snapping, powertoys, rock solid multimonitor support that always remembers which apps should be where etc. Like I said, people are just caught up by their reputations, if you use both on a day to day basis there’s no way you’ll find MacOS more convenient.

            Edit: though in the spirit of concession I will concede that I’ve come to prefer MacOS’s ctrl+space to search, and prefer enter to rename a file instead of f2, however, the former at least can be added to windows with power toys.

    • wraithcoop@lemmy.one
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m not one to stan for mac because I’d rather just use Linux, but there’s a little dot under the icon in the dock if the application is open (windows has a line which is definitely more visible), and you can change the size of the dock. I make it as small as possible and have it grow big when hovering. You can also put it on any side, doesn’t have to be the bottom, or horizontal, and it can be hidden so it doesn’t take any space unless you mouse over the edge. I think the top bar can work like that too. I hate having things pop up so I don’t do that, I just try to minimize the resting screen space used. With my settings it takes up about as much space as the windows task bar.

      You can also fullscreen apps and use multi desktop if you really need all your screen space. The laptop work gave me has a notch for the webcam so the os reserves space at at the top for fullscreen as well otherwise apps would be getting part of it cut off (i.e., search bar on slack), but it’s 16:10 so whatever.

      That being said… let it out bro, I get red in the face any time I have to use MS office products for work lmao