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by WorldWideWayne 3922 days ago
I always thought OS X was really clunky compared to Windows where everything is fairly uniform and well labeled. Also, in OS X you can't have simple features like "changing the color of the mouse cursor" in OS X because Apple.

Look at any thread about OS X desktop setups and you'll see people recommending tools that add features from Windows like changing the way Alt-Tab works or adding tiling commands.

However there are many features that you simply can't have (besides the cursor color that I mentioned above.) You can't have a proper taskbar even though many people want one because Apple doesn't let you use a certain API that the Dock uses to change `NSScreen.visibleFrame`.

In Windows there is a simple uniform way of controlling the entire OS with the keyboard whereas in OS X, you have to remember a million secret handshakes. Windows also has a vastly more robust file browser compared to the ailing Finder that everybody hates. It's no wonder that there is hardly any software for extending Finder in OS X like TortoiseGit. Most people just recommend to replace it with a better app like XtraFinder, TotalFinder or PathFinder.

The only reason anyone uses it around here is because it's got Unix and it's not from Microsoft. If it wasn't Unix, most people would be making fun of the klunky interface just like they made fun of the Mac interface back in the 90's.