The MacOS Thread - For unix users with disposable income.

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Is MacOS for queers

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    Votes: 23 63.9%

  • Yes (I'm a covid cautious queer lesbian)

    Votes: 13 36.1%
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I have yet to find something like the preview application on macOS on other operating systems, for mass reading through papers/textbooks/etc in the pdf format. The only thing I can think of that might be close to the sheer ease of use and functionality is the current zotero beta which ofc isn't polished at all. I read and study ALOT so it's really a smooth worth flow with very little issues especially if you have a good/comfy mouse to bind macros.

That said I hope whoever designed the music application is culturally enriched by urban scholars as it were for not natively supporting FLAC (even though quick time player does) and for generally just being shitter than itunes for managing your local music collection. I have yet to find a good application on macOS that can play flac files and also has a good UI and is semi regularly updated.
 
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the rat said:
Always visible menu bar that wastes space, SIP and forced mouse acceleration. You sure you don't have a disability?
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you can hide the menu bar now and have been able to for awhile, with respect to the other things I can't really comment.
 
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Apart from the better battery life on Macbooks, what is MacOS better at for tech literate people vs Windows and Linux? I ask that with genuine curiosity rather than trying to start an argument like some fag. I've only used MacOS briefly and while I really liked the overall presentation, I've never been able to come with a strong enough justification to buy any Apple computers. Then again, I didn't do some gigantic deep dive on its pros and cons either.

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That said I hope whoever designed the music application is culturally enriched by urban scholars as it were for not natively supporting FLAC (even though quick time player does) and for generally just being shitter than itunes for managing your local music collection. I have yet to find a good application on macOS that can play flac files and also has a good UI and is semi regularly updated.
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Don't care for foobar2000's UI?
 
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Merton J. Dingle said:
Apart from the better battery life on Macbooks, what is MacOS better at for tech literate people vs Windows and Linux?
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It's a nice casual computing experience that due to its Unix underpinnings is great for interfacing with Linux boxes out of the box. It's also much more stable then Windows and doesn't have advertisements shoved in your face in the consumer editions.

TLDR: it's comfy while also useful in a pinch, wouldn't use it for primary computing though
 
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Merton J. Dingle said:
Apart from the better battery life on Macbooks, what is MacOS better at for tech literate people vs Windows and Linux? I ask that with genuine curiosity rather than trying to start an argument like some fag. I've only used MacOS briefly and while I really liked the overall presentation, I've never been able to come with a strong enough justification to buy any Apple computers. Then again, I didn't do some gigantic deep dive on its pros and cons either.
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A ride on a Hackintosh is usually enough to cure your curiosity. you can use imessage without an iphone. you can use itunes natively if its a stretch to manage your music some other way. you can get a unixish CLI. A lot of old techbros are going macbook I've noticed. More simple, stable but stable is very easy when you don't have to handle the work loads of users that have checked out from polite society.
 
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Merton J. Dingle said:
Apart from the better battery life on Macbooks, what is MacOS better at for tech literate people vs Windows and Linux? I ask that with genuine curiosity rather than trying to start an argument like some fag. I've only used MacOS briefly and while I really liked the overall presentation, I've never been able to come with a strong enough justification to buy any Apple computers. Then again, I didn't do some gigantic deep dive on its pros and cons either.
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I've been a Macfag for years; my take is that there's really only three camps that Mac OS excels at:

  • Darwin/xnu, the underpinnings of Mac OS X, are derived from BSD and Apple's maintained UNIX certification I think ever since 10.0 came out? This makes it easy to interact with other POSIX-compliant systems like Linux and real BSDs.
  • Macs are still used heavily in the entertainment industry. I have been told this is due to a lot of the really high-end A/V interface gear only shipping with drivers for Mac OS - no Windows support at all.
  • iOS development - mostly because Apple only makes the iOS SDK and tools available on Mac OS X.
I personally fall into the first camp. Mac OS is POSIX enough to keep me happy without having to deal with the bullshit that is your average Linux distro (I don't use arch btw).
 
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The last Mac I used was the trashcan and doing anything on it felt slow, running High Sierra on it was a pain even with the ram maxed out, Sierra worked well enough on every trashcan before the upgrade, and we never got to try Mojave on them as IT decided to switch to regular PC's at that point.

I've seen deals on used M1 Mac mini's pop up in marketplace between $60 and $100 and I'm not sure if I should bite to use it as a general purpose computer.
 
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I'm used to macOS. It's fine for what it does. I like how images are shown when you have tiles to show files.
 
I have a hackintoshed laptop I use as my main computer right now. I originally hackintoshed it for getting into audio production (I tried Logic before and it was really nice, especially for recording guitar shit) and while I do use it for that, it's been very useful for other stuff too. MacOS is a very nice operating system albiet with a few tweaks (mainly LinearMouse and Rectangle) to get it up to snuff with how I used other operating systems.
 
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Merton J. Dingle said:
Apart from the better battery life on Macbooks, what is MacOS better at for tech literate people vs Windows and Linux? I ask that with genuine curiosity rather than trying to start an argument like some fag. I've only used MacOS briefly and while I really liked the overall presentation, I've never been able to come with a strong enough justification to buy any Apple computers. Then again, I didn't do some gigantic deep dive on its pros and cons either.


Don't care for foobar2000's UI?
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I'm in a grad school program and its nice to have a backup machine to my Linux desktop that has a Unix terminal emulator, standard Unix core utilities, and can natively run Microsoft office. I don't code much on it anymore as I prefer my desktop due to the processor, but when I'm away from home doing work, it fits the bill especially with the Apple Silicon ARM processor. Not only that the machine has never crashed once despite rebooting every four weeks or so.

I still prefer Linux but Linux on ARM needs more work and Apple Silicon spoiled me so I may never go back to x86 on a laptop.
 
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