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1725 points taubek | 1 comments | 27 Mar 23 05:20 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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anigbrowl ◴[27 Mar 23 17:47 UTC] No.35329858[source]▶
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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1. anon291 ◴[27 Mar 23 18:56 UTC] No.35330771[source]▶
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.