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0 pointsmajormajor4y ago0 comments

In fairness, I don't think most end users are plugging in four monitors, cut and pasting folders, or playing 25 year old games.

And all those things are very user-specific and better for some than others in different places. I have a Dell from 2017 that won't run an external monitor with the lid closed out of the box, it'll go to sleep. I tried playing Total Annihilation (another 25 year old one) off GOG on it and it didn't work - using either Linux or Mac (I forget which one it was) worked because the emulation layer it was using for Windows was more compatible with an ancient game than real Windows 10.

I think today's "average end user" for a Mac would propose examples more like "the Messages and Photos apps is synced with my iPhone out of the box."

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knighthack4y ago

> I don't think most end users are plugging in four monitors, cut and pasting folders, or playing 25 year old games.

Most users are not cut and pasting folders? What?

When I first used a Mac, that was one of the first major difficulties I encountered. Cut and paste was quite unnatural - you had to Copy the source item, and then press COMMAND+OPTION+V to move/paste an item rather than to copy it. It was quite unintuitive.

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smoldesu4y ago

Try running that game on a modern Mac, it won't launch now either.

wink4y ago

You can ignore the "four" and just say "more than one". And that's absolutely not uncommon in work environments.

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