Mac: It Just Works–Terribly (opens in new tab)

These articles, which show up here in spades, are of course insightful and as far as I can tell factually accurate. But they all follow a similar model in which the author concludes that because the quirks that macOS exhibits fall squarely on the functionalities that he cares deeply about, that the product is condemnable for all users. Or worse, he infers that only the vast unwashed masses of non cognoscenti are the only ones who can put up with Apple’s shenanigans.

Of course, there’s much lamentable about some of the design choices in macOS, and they irritate me - a little, sometimes more - but as I read this latest diatribe, I was surprised that the author spent such a sum on a new M1 Mac without evaluating its fitness for his use cases.

This article was already submitted 22 days ago and 1 month ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31518939

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31269367 (11 comments)

"IMO, it’s unfortunate that the power of M1 is being wasted on such an outdated crappy macOS"

Is my opinion as well. I gave up on MacOS like 16 years ago. Great hardware held back by not so great software which hasn't been keeping up with the hardware advances.

The difficulty in configuring a high dpi mouse without acceleration is maddening.

  defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling -1

doesn't seem to be cutting it for me anymore.

With Apple it's "do as you're told", not "do as you like".

My wireless mouse has always been crappy and glitchy on osx. Has been for years.