• Zarobi@aussie.zone
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    1 day ago

    I only use terminal when I have to. It’s just a collection of micro irritations, it’s hard to explain. Like scroll wheel doesn’t work the way I expect or want. Not even the reversing thing, just the feel of it. I don’t like the ultra dpi screen, I actually prefer lower resolution screens. Every keyboard shortcut is weird and multi key when it didn’t have to be. I’m not going in and changing hundreds. I don’t like the animations, I hate the title bar and options menus, the fonts are difficult for me to read and hard to change (dyslexia). Everything is way too tiny and hard to see, and I never figured out how to zoom in. I hate the way windows work and the bottom bar. I miss the start menu. The file system feels weird and annoying to navigate. The comment further up the chain elaborates on most of the others.

    It results in an experience where instead of enjoying tinkering on my computer and just having fun, it feels like fine grit sandpaper that chafes after 20 minutes. Difficult isn’t the right word, I can do everything on a Mac that I need to, but it’s annoying. I get choleric and my work suffers. I just try to get it over with as quickly as possible. I’m never going to like MacOS, it’s not for me and never will be.

    Luckily I’m retired now and don’t have to suffer MacOS anymore.

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      1 day ago

      Fair points, most of these are fixed with just a config change.

      To me it just sounds like you’re used to doing things the windows way, so the Mac/linux way seems more foreign.

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          22 hours ago

          I’m just under the impression that if you used Linux, you’d be used to tweaking and configuring things to your liking. Which it seems like you didn’t attempt to do with macOS.

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            21 hours ago

            I actually didn’t have to tweak Linux much at all, it was almost perfect for me from day 1. Stock KDE is exactly how I like it, and it was easy to bump the font size and a few other minor things. But even without those tweaks I didn’t find it frustrating in comparison