I know this might be a couple months old, but I didn’t know we already passed 4%.

  • iopq@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I struggle to do the same things on the Mac that are trivial in Windows and Linux.

    For example, I gave up on Homebrew because it was difficult to install. For one thing, it required me to set up an Apple developer account on my version of MacOS

    I don’t use my girlfriend’s Mac book because the OS is not as intuitive, like I found out recently you have to drag the icon in to install things. Who comes up with this shit?

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      7 months ago

      I gave up on Homebrew because it was difficult to install.

      It just includes as a dependency the Mac command line developer tools, which can be installed pretty easily from what I remember.

      And what I like is that it’s a normal Unix style shell, with almost all the utilities you’d expect.

      you have to drag the icon in to install things.

      I mean that’s about 100 times better than Windows’ default of running an installer that isn’t easily reversible.

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        7 months ago

        On Linux I don’t drag icons nor download random shit from my web browser, there’s a software center (which I control), and I click install, and then the software is there.

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      7 months ago

      That’s fair, I think Mac’s extremely opinionated design that be grating at times. Also, heaven help you if you want to do something non-standard on a Mac, the system fights you every step of the way.

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        7 months ago

        There isn’t much you can’t do on Mac if you use the terminal, much like Linux. It’s much better than the convoluted mess that windows settings is.

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      7 months ago

      You often install binaries in Linux by moving them to a directory you can call them from. Which is the same thing MacOs has you do graphically. You can do it on command line as well.

      Using a Mac is much the same as Linux. Mac OS is unix and Linux is a copy of unix systems. Your just used to the windows ways that aren’t that good to start with.