Maybe decades ago, but not now.
Not even decades ago. ResEdit was one way we hacked old Macs back in the day.
Yeah, Mac stuff is white or silver now. They stopped doing the colourful stuff 20-odd years ago.
Kids use Chromebooks everywhere I’ve seen the past 5+ years.
Mac osx has unix command prompts built in and the ability to containerize out of the gate. Windows requires WSL and a bunch of other shit to achieve a substantially worse effect.
The out of the box containerization is still pretty new though — it’s like a month old
Exactly. Modern Windows is like Tesla - shiny exterior built on top of garbage cobbled together with paperclips and duct tape. No visible knobs, no easy to access features, everything hidden behind layers of needless menus and abstraction with the express goal to extract maximum value from their ‘customers’.
I’m not an Apple fanboy by any means but I feel like the two ecosystems are much closer now than they were 10-15 years ago.
People saying switch windows and Mac to make modern but I’m pretty sure that kids toy is going to have less bugs and is much less likely to crash. It’s also streamlined and does what you expect it to quickly. I don’t know if that’s what Macs are like but it’s definitely not my experience with windows.
That’s my phone choice. Lol can you imagine the amount of tasks needed to complete to accept/deny incoming/outgoing transactions…
It’s an older meme sir but it doesn’t check out anymore.
For the love of Pete, not this again.
Many flavors of Linux are more simple and user friendly than Windows or Mac.
Mac is unix-based and very similar to Linux in many ways.
Windows is like that car that Homer Simpson designed.
Jeepers. These comments. I agree with you. I love Linux, but, unless you’re lucky enough to have perfect hardware, Linux is still a bit hard to use. Mac and Windows are heading that way too. Macs require a Mac, and new Windows PCs have hardware requirements as well. I’m on my third distro for one of my Linux PCs because of hardware issues. I love Linux, but sometimes it’s a pain.
Windows being a viper? Absofuckinglutely not, the viper being a way to powerful, analog and hands on car is the exact opposite of windows. Windows is more comparable to a modern, but badly build, electric car with all of the spyware and the features that comes with that.
The viper was a poorly made, uncomfortable, weird car with some stupid and inconvenient design choices. It was also not very reliable, used way too much fuel, and had serious safety issues. I think it’s a perfect analogy for windows.
This is all true with the addition that the Viper looks fucking sick even with those issues. Windows just looks lame no matter what.
The viper was all engine and least amount of car build to Chryslers budget. And it wasn’t really that bad reliability vise as it uses a big lowstrung pushrod engine, a manual transmission and no electronics to speak of. And yes it uses a lot of fuel, just like any other 400hp engine of that time. The only thing they share is the bad build quality, but for different reasons, Chrysler being broke while railing coke of a hookers ass and windows because of enshittification. Newer vipers er largely the same but with marginally better safety.
First edition vipers didn’t even have door handles on the outside since the concept car on which it was
copy-pastedbased on didn’t have them either
I’m gonna say windows is more like a cybertruck truck. Full of bloat, spyware, and half the features are not like to slice a finger off than do what it’s supposed to- and definitely not bullet proof.
Flip Windows and macOS and I think the meme works again.
I think there is an argument to be made here. About window shitty, inconsistent, obscure ui. That you constantly have to Google to figure out where are your settings. unlike macOs much more streamline UI
You know macOS ships with a terminal ootb, right? There’s a reason it’s a massively popular option for devs.
It depends on a user
As an engineer, I would rather develop on Mac than any other OS. I have shit to do and need to work in a POSIX compliant OS without bloat, while also not worrying about my OS install getting borked arbitrarily because I looked at it wrong.
Weird, I’ve been forced to use a Mac for work, never liked it. I prefer Debian or other non-rolling-release distros with long term support, and haven’t had a Linux install get messed up in many years (since I used Arch, and something went wrong with my proprietary Nvidia drivers after an update).
I enjoyed using a MBP for a few years, mostly for the trackpad. I eventually grew too annoyed with the desktop crashes and iCloud bloat though. I built a new Linux workstation last year, and it just feels like home 🐧.
As another engineer, I won’t touch another Mac until it allows me to upgrade memory and disk without buying a whole other unit.
Never had to upgrade memory or disk in the lifespan of the machine. What really makes a difference though is 20 hours of battery life. You can run around the office without worrying about staying plugged in.
Also, AMD is also going towards the SoC approach.its only a matter of time before you can’t upgrade memory on PCs too.
I’d reverse Windows and Mac. Mac is sleek, smooth, pleasant, well integrated, solid, stable, and has a good shell. They have great machines with great specs and are well built. They also take some learning to become efficient with.
Windows on the other hand, is cheap, buggy, ugly, unstable, comes pre-packaged with flashy junk, breaks easily, any child can use it and then break it.
I completely agree. As a software developer I preferred when I had a Mac whereas our company uses Windows and Microsoft for everything and it just meh.
Mac was so easy to do everything from the terminal or the search bar.
Plus I like how they have the Homebrew packaging system to install pretty much anything you need.
Windows has something similar with chocolatey but it’s just not as complete. It’s not *nix apps either.
MacOS is so much better than Windows in every way. The amount of software available is crazy. So many nice apps, menubar tools, finder alternatives etc. And they’re generally nicely designed and updated, which very much isn’t the case for Windows. Using Windows has been a horrible experience for the past 20 years, and it wasn’t great before that. Want some basic simple app for a specific thing? It’s either some heavily bloated shit that costs money and takes up way more system resources than it needs to or it’s a several-decades-old thing that just doesn’t work anymore.
Mac is in this weird bubble where it can be the kid with a toy wheel or the airplane cockpit.
Mostly people using it are using it like a baby toy though
