SeCuRiTy aNd PerForManCe

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I'm not looking to argue, but this is my take:

They're going to keep making it more and more difficult for the average consumer to step outside of the Apple-intended vision (as they have with Gatekeeper, SIP, and removing kernel extension support), but I really don't think they would be stupid enough to fully close the ecosystem.

A lot of their MacBook Pro and Mac Pro sales comes from corporate hardware refreshes. If a company can't get their proprietary software working because of arbitrary restrictions, they're going to buy a Windows device next time.

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CMD ` (backtick) will switch between application windows, if that's what was frustrating you.

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If a company can't get their proprietary software working because of arbitrary restrictions, they're going to buy a Windows device next time.

They already have something in place for that, it's called the Apple Developer Enterprise Program

They've got a plan to build the wall around MacOS and they're executing it, it's not going to be an overnight thing, but it's coming

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. It’s not a walled garden in any way, shape, or form.

MacOS gatekeeper is the first step they're taking towards it, it's not yet a walled garden, but they want it to be and have a plan to get there.

It’s a full, true UNIX desktop OS.

If that were true, then root should be absolute, but it isn't on MacOS. Between SIP and other new "For your security and protection" features, root has taken a back seat and has been completely neutered.

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Well, shit. It's a good thing that I don't use a Mac unless it's forced upon me.

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No, it was that there was no quick way to see what Firefox windows i had open from the dock.

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I architected and built a cloud based apple build system for a megacorp, what an anti consumer POS company. I hate apple with a passion.

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Unless Apple decides the software is too old and isn't allowed to work anymore.

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You mean like 90% of all posts in linuxmemes?

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https://lawand.io/taskbar/ you're welcome

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You can (and I do) rebind the modifier keys in System Preferences. Makes it a lot comfier to use a Mac and another machine with the same keyboard via KVM.

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It has limitations, unfortunately. Command+Tab is off limits and can't be changed or disabled, and I recently read that the latest OS version disallows registering hotkeys with only Option or Option+Shift as the modifier.

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I've had the fun experience recently of moving my work related dev to the company-provided laptop, and boy oh boy have I come to hate Apple quickly.

Most surprising one for me was how trash it is at scaling UI on large displays. I have a pair of 27" and the system text is tiny. Turns out if I had Apple displays things would work better and that scaling option would be available. Instead I'm stuck just switching to a lower non-native resolution, which looks like shit and feels really outdated, but at least I can read the text and use the UI properly.

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Honestly my M2 MacBook Pro feels like it’s built to last. I paid a lot, but I feel like I’ve gotten great value out of it and genuinely enjoy using it. And it’s still going strong.

But we have to talk about Apple’s hostility towards developers. It’s like they want to make devs miserable. That’s the part that’s unforgivable imo.

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The control+shift+c bullshit is really fucking annoying to me. Control has other uses? Great, THATS WHAT THE META KEY IS FOR.

Apple got this right and linux should allow everyone to use apple key shortcut method where every system wide shortcut is meta+key because nobody, not even clicky clacky terminal emulator uses meta+key for anything else.

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Ultimately you may be right about these, but the issue at the heart of them all is that Apple makes their stuff harder to use by people used to other systems, on purpose. They could very easily institute a toggleable setting that'd change the hotkeys to be more like...ya know...every other OS. They could make non-Apple hardware work better (wouldn't be trivial but I'm fairly certain they put effort into making things worse as is), they could make messages and files transfer better between iPhone and Android, etc.

Lots of things they could do to improve the experience of non-mega-fans, but they choose to run their business in a way that punishes anyone who isn't using them for everything. And fuck em for that.

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Thank you so much for sharing this! I have to use a Mac for work and the stock dock sucks as mentioned! Bummer that it costs $25 to have a functional dock, but it might be worth it.

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Don't even get me started on how god awful finder is, windows 3.1 was nicer to use, macOS is garbage painted silver

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Still better than Windows, though.

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Honestly my M2 MacBook Pro feels like it’s built to last. I paid a lot, but I feel like I’ve gotten great value out of it and genuinely enjoy using it. And it’s still going strong.

yeah until you want to upgrade or repair something, then it's fuck you buy another one. I get the apple premium, what I don't get is the scorn they show for people who have purchased their overpriced hardware when they want to upgrade it. that's just insulting - you gotta buy it with everything maxed out on APPLE ram, ssds etc.,