What is your personal preference based on experience? I Assume because Mac is Unix and Linux is Unix based, it would be more suited, but I have no personal experience with the layout. I am willing to try something new if i hear enough merits for it, and I also find the windows layout somewhat inadequate(The grass is greener on the other side /s)

I dailydrive Gnome, I am not a programmer, but i am a power user

(On a tangent: Why is gnome so restrictive, it feels like its missing a ton of UI features that are trivial without a boatload of 3rd party extensions that break every update; why doesn’t Win+Shift+number launch a new instance, every other DE does, why doesn’t it?; I don’t use KDE because I just don’t like it, I feel Gnome could be way more if it just natively integrated the extensions ).

aesthetically the windows key annoys me and i hate putting stickers on keyboards; I like how the mac layout looks(My very minimal experience with an in store mac-book has cautioned me away from the fisher-price OS so i don’t know if it is intuitive to use)

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
    53·
    9 months ago

    My very minimal experience with an in store mac-book has cautioned me away from the fisher-price OS

    Saying it’s a Fisher-Price OS is like saying Linux is Fisher-Price because people have anime themes.

    It’s Unix under the hood. It’s just as much a “real” operating system as any desktop Linux distro. It just looks nice.

    • Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.mlOP
      31·
      9 months ago

      Sorry if it offended you, to me it just felt locked down like iOS, only time I used MacOs when I spun up a virtual machine to try it out

      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
        2·
        9 months ago

        No offense taken! There are a lot of justifiable reasons why people would avoid Apple products, I just don’t think the desktop OS is one of them.

    • chepycou 🇻🇦@rcsocial.net
      22·
      9 months ago

      @Semi-Hemi-Demigod @Artemis_Mystique I totally disagree, I have to troubleshoot software installations for students and help them repair broken devices and I spend most of my time fixing one or two issues for the biology or mathematics students having macs. (And when their computers are broken, well I advise them to buy a new one which they’ll be able to get repaired).
      It’s just not meant for serious computer use, IMO. The only contexts it beats #Linux et rivals windows seems to be in creative settings.

        • chepycou 🇻🇦@rcsocial.net
          12·
          9 months ago

          @Semi-Hemi-Demigod @Artemis_Mystique Well, maybe the problems the students are facing are due to all of the software that the school uses being incompatible with apple. (Knowing how apple loves to be incompatible themselves, I guess that’s quite logical).

          And I am sure an experienced user can find workarounds to get the computer to work properly. (#asahilinux being the first thing that comes to my mind, though I never tried #asahi personally because I don’t want to contribute to apple’s e-waste)