Tuesday November 23, 2021; 4:19 PM EST
- I've been critical of Apple and macOS in the past, and I've not used a Mac in years. That changed recently and now I have a Mac and am using macOS. The more I use it, the more I appreciate the details in it. Everything is unified in a much tighter and nicer way than Windows or Linux. I think GNOME or KDE on Linux does a decent job of it, or if you live entirely within emacs, but as a mainstream desktop OS, macOS is enjoyable. I do have some Windows/Linux-isms to unlearn or perhaps is macOS-isms to learn. #
Finder is a bit odd - why can't I press enter to open a directory? It actually is an outline, and pressing ⌘ Command + ↓ Down Arrow navigates to the level below. There's probably other stuff but I've forgotten it or looked it up. Using ⌘+C/V for copy and paste is going to be the biggest complaint from the family if I setup the main computer to be the Mac. Yes they can learn, but they don't use the computer enough to appreciate everything else to understand why they should learn. #- Seems like it annoyed someone enough they wrote some software to fix these things!#
- The integration obviously goes a long way if you're in the Apple ecosystem. So it makes so much sense to use the stock apps too. Which is something else I now appreciate. Stock apps - that are good and useful! Windows what do you offer? A few things but nowhere near as good. Of course Linux has the upper hand in terms of available software (of course much of it runs on other OSs too) but there's not always the integration.#
- Anyway, I'm enjoying it and no, it's not all open source, but whatever. 🤷🏼♂️#
Tuesday November 23, 2021; 4:19 PM EST
- I've been critical of Apple and macOS in the past, and I've not used a Mac in years. That changed recently and now I have a Mac and am using macOS. The more I use it, the more I appreciate the details in it. Everything is unified in a much tighter and nicer way than Windows or Linux. I think GNOME or KDE on Linux does a decent job of it, or if you live entirely within emacs, but as a mainstream desktop OS, macOS is enjoyable. I do have some Windows/Linux-isms to unlearn or perhaps is macOS-isms to learn. #
- Finder is a bit odd - why can't I press enter to open a directory? It actually is an outline, and pressing ⌘ Command + ↓ Down Arrow navigates to the level below. There's probably other stuff but I've forgotten it or looked it up. Using ⌘+C/V for copy and paste is going to be the biggest complaint from the family if I setup the main computer to be the Mac. Yes they can learn, but they don't use the computer enough to appreciate everything else to understand why they should learn. #
- Seems like it annoyed someone enough they wrote some software to fix these things!#
- The integration obviously goes a long way if you're in the Apple ecosystem. So it makes so much sense to use the stock apps too. Which is something else I now appreciate. Stock apps - that are good and useful! Windows what do you offer? A few things but nowhere near as good. Of course Linux has the upper hand in terms of available software (of course much of it runs on other OSs too) but there's not always the integration.#
- Anyway, I'm enjoying it and no, it's not all open source, but whatever. 🤷🏼♂️#