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smusamashah ◴[27 Mar 23 13:37 UTC] No.35326531[source]▶

Linking this comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019307 that designers at Microsoft use Mac and have been given more power than they should.

   This has been the case for a while. I worked on the Windows Desktop Experience Team from Win7-Win10. Starting around Win8, the designers had full control, and most crucially essentially none of the designers use Windows.
   I spent far too many years of my career sitting in conference rooms explaining to the newest designer (because they seem to rotate every 6-18 months) with a shiny Macbook why various ideas had been tried and failed in usability studies because our users want X, Y, and Z.

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1. anigbrowl ◴[27 Mar 23 17:47 UTC] No.35329858[source]▶

>>35326531 #

Ironically after getting a Mac last year and expecting to hate it and put Linux on instead, I found MacOS a far more restful and pleasant desktop environment to work in than Windows has become. There's a few things I miss, like the File Manager, but OTOH I have a proper terminal environment instead.

But mainly I like that it's the same every time unless I alter something, that it's very consistent, and that it's not constantly trying to steal my attention.

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2. chaostheory ◴[27 Mar 23 18:48 UTC] No.35330663[source]▶

>>35329858 (TP) #

Yeah, I switched from Windows over a decade ago, and I still miss Windows File Manager. Nothing I’ve seen in other OS’s can seem to match it. There are mods for Mac OS that can potentially fix it though.

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3. TheSpiceIsLife ◴[27 Mar 23 18:48 UTC] No.35330668[source]▶

>>35329858 (TP) #

Try Path Finder

https://www.cocoatech.io/

No association, just a happy user when I had Macs.

4. anon291 ◴[27 Mar 23 18:56 UTC] No.35330771[source]▶

>>35329858 (TP) #

When it comes to the realm of commercial desktops for personal compute, MacOS is the best by far. Unfortunately, the only truly usable ones are the open source ones. After years of linux usage, I simply cannot operate a windows computer. I am impressed by those who can. You seemingly have to be a mouse ninja to dismiss the various notifications that continuously pop up.

5. mijoharas ◴[27 Mar 23 22:33 UTC] No.35333713[source]▶

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It's probably been about a decade since I used Windows as well so this is probably just my memory, but I don't remember anything special about file manager.

What's so good about it?

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6. anigbrowl ◴[28 Mar 23 00:49 UTC] No.35334308{3}[source]▶

>>35333713 #

Tree + file panel, per-folder display settings

7. Nextgrid ◴[28 Mar 23 13:36 UTC] No.35340828{3}[source]▶

>>35333713 #

A file picker/saver dialog that doesn't take ages to open, like it does on MacOS.

8. BlackFly ◴[29 Mar 23 08:01 UTC] No.35354028[source]▶

>>35329858 (TP) #

For me, the terminal experience on MacOS is uncanny valley because of the BSD implementations:

   $ ls tmp -al
   ls: -al: No such file or directory

This is the ls example, but all the utilities I would reach for on a linux behave like this. I'm told you can install gnu coreutils through brew, but my company locks that down so I get stuck with this surreal terminal experience.

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