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Subject: Re: A quick search on _noticeable_ Linux improvements since 2014
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On 2025-03-06, Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote:
> CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>
>> On 2025-03-06 10:32 a.m., Sn!pe wrote:
>> > CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>> > 
>> > [...]
>> >>
>> >> MacOS is indeed clunky. Certain things which should be easy to do end up
>> >> being more complicated simply because they are in MacOS. One example is
>> >> switching from mirrored to extended when using two or more screens.
>> >>
>> > 
>> > Nonsense.  Control of screen mirroring and extending
>> > is available with one click in the menu bar.
>> >
>>
>> One click to get into the bar, another to open up the screen controls
>> and a third to choose which setting you want. How is that better than a
>> keyboard combination as in Linux or Windows?
>>
>
> I couldn't say, I haven't used 'Doze for 20 years or Linux for 15 except
> rarely in a VM.  I suppose it comes down to the question:  do you prefer
> the GUI and trackpad or the CLI and keyboard?  I think it's rather harsh
> to describe macOS as clunky just because you prefer the keyboard.  
> If I wanted to be rude, I could describe the CLI as old fashioned.

For me, the main "clunky" part of Mac OS is having to quit an application, 
after you've already closed it. I hate that. Isn't that what minimize should 
be for? (And doesn't that make minimize redundant?)

Also, in my limited use of Mac OS, I find the "file manager" (by whatever 
name) to be "clunky." I chalk that up (partly) to my ignorance of the Mac 
OS, but I find Linux (the several desktops variants that I've tried) and 
Windows file managers to be much more intuitive.

As for the CLI, it's hardly old fashioned. It's usually just much more 
efficient for many purposes. But the Mac also has the CLI, although the 
default setting isn't color (like it is in Linux), so it's harder to 
separate out directories and various types of files.

> There's no accounting for taste, eh?

Nope. If you like the Mac OS and it works for you, that's what you should 
use. Definitely not my first choice though.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien