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God damn it, I don't know why they praise macs so far. It's so inflexible, inconsistent, impossible to set up to my usage. I have to use TOUCHPAD of all things to move around efficiently. I am sooo frustrated.
Am I just too old for this shit? Has anybody transitioned from #linux to #macos (after a decade or two, no n00b takes please) and felt as productive, ever? How long did it take you?
Who ever made the switch and felt that the mac is BETTER? If you did, what kind of work do you do? What are some tips to stop feeling so frustrated?
@zlatko @dgar As a hard-core, long, long lonnng-term Mac user/cheerleader, I can see why you’d feel this way. There was a time when macOS would have been a better transition for you. That time has passed — and you hit the nail on the head with “inflexible” and “inconsistent”. I would add “obfuscatory”, as they seem intent on destroying function-discoverability (invisible tap targets! yay!) while simultaneously adding submenu after submenu to commonly-used features.
@zlatko @goodthinking
Yeah, that’s the truth. It’s actually gotten to the point where I need a new computer right now, and Apple don’t make anything I want to buy.
@dgar @zlatko What’s wild is that Apple still has the very best Accessibility story out there — the stuff they’ve done with iOS and even watchOS for audio and visual assistance seems pretty admirable and well-placed. Just makes it all the more weird that they keep solving problems NO ONE HAS on macOS, forced attempts at knitting iPadOS to it, and so on.
@goodthinking @dgar yes, exactly. Those problems are not my problem, tough, just the fact that I can't set things my way. I guess I expected way too much.
FWIW I got a Linux box in the meantime.