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
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    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
      21·
      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
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        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
      11·
      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.