• masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
    1018·
    9 months ago

    If I wanted to memorize a bunch of random shortcuts and gestures to do basic tasks I’d use MacOS.

      • smolyeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        9 months ago

        After using both (windows personal , Mac work) , I personally find the hot keys more intuitive in some areas and worse in others. Command being the requirement for a lot of shortcuts makes it easier , but stuff like show desktop or lock were annoying until more recent versions.

        • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          9 months ago

          My point was that MacOS requires you to remember a bunch of shortcuts for basic things that Windows handles naturally. Like want to know what Windows you have open? On Windows you can tell that fromd the taskbar, on MacOS you have to remember a shortcut.

          • smolyeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            That’s fair. The dots under the application in the dock let you know what is open. I find expose easier to use because you can see them all at once like you can do on windows. I only look at the dock to see what’s open on windows, and I alway group them which is probably why the Mac setup works for me

      • Ghostbanjo1949AEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Yeah, I’ve had the joy of using all 3 OS. MacOS was by far the most disappointing and frustrating. I know it probably is not that way for everyone though.

        With all 3 Windows - I hate the bloat of Windows. The disk space needed, how much RAM/CPU cycles it consumes. But I’m old and have used every version since 3 in many different capacities, professionally and personally including all server versions.

        Linux - I love the control of the OS. I can pretty much easily make it do whatever I need it to with minimal effort on my part. In this case, I’ve run servers of it and Unix since 2000. Started dabbling with it on the desktop in 2004 between it and Windows dual booted on all my laptops and desktops. At this point it is now the only thing I use since finally gaming has gotten really good on it. Thank you Valve.

        MacOS - When I took my latest position at a small startup, these are the laptops we buy for folks. As I came in to head up tech, I said alright I’ll give it a whirl, but expect I’m going to have the company buy me a new laptop that I slap Linux on. I used it for a good 6 months exclusively for work. I enjoyed the hardware, my model still had the contextual touch screen bar, which I thought was fantastic, being a mainly keyboard using person it sped up a lot of workflows. There were a lot of headaches though. I would describe it as a middle ground between Windows and Linux that I just didn’t feel needed to exist. I would run into things I would want to do. Perhaps I want some script I wrote to be run as a service, would be incredibly easy to setup in Linux, and a minor headache in Windows and well Mac doesn’t do that. There were ways to do what I needed using its automation thing, but holy crap that was annoying. Eventually I said take this thing back, bought a nice MainGear laptop, with 64 GB of RAM, a hefty AMD processor, latest Nvidia GPU and slapped Debian on that beast for $1k less than the MacBook.

        Sorry the rant, guess I had to get this off my chest, lol.

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        22·
        9 months ago

        im meant to use a Macbook for work. I don’t. I sign into it whenever they complain I haven’t signed into it and go straight back to using my old computer I formatted for work. it doesn’t even support two screens!

        • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Mx series MacBooks are a non starter for work since they only support a single external monitor like it’s 2002.

          Even the Mx Pro series MacBooks don’t support Multi Stream Transport, so are limited to only outputting two displays.

          I miss Windows.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, I wish I never had to use a mouse. Only serves to slow things down. Obviously, gaming, necessary, but anything productive, taking your hands off the keyboard is a waste.

      I am not a programmer, either. Using Excel and Word are secondary functions in my job, basically administrative, making invoices, record keeping, but they function so much better with your hands on keyboard. Alt menus for the office suite are time savers. And the stupid expensive bullshit proprietary software I use for my work is basically built to use hotkeys.