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by willtim 2937 days ago
> whole UI/UX thing on Linux just can't be compared to macOS and Cocoa.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I much prefer the look and feel of my i3/polybar setup. As a professional developer, I am not the target audience for Apple's UI.
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pjmlp 2937 days ago
Those guys and gals creating Mac specific software are professional developers and pretty much the target audience of Apple's UI.
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pphysch 2937 days ago
They are "pretty much" not--it's the 10s of millions of non-developer consumers that drive Apple's UI/UX.
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pjmlp 2937 days ago
You should experience attending a WWDC, even if virtually.
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pphysch 2937 days ago
If we are talking developer tools, sure, they are developer oriented by definition.

The overall Apple UX is clearly inheriting from the other side of the spectrum. Headless Linux is massively popular among developers for a reason, and not because the average developer is stuck-up.

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pjmlp 2937 days ago
There are many developers on Apple systems that care about their exclusive Apple users, using macOS, iOS, tvOS and watchOS native APIs.

They really care about the UI/UX that they provide to their users and what graphical tooling and OS APIs can make their jobs easy.

Then there those using Apple computers as pretty GNU/Linux replacements, doing development work that should actually be done in a GNU/Linux distribution.

Developer is not only someone coding away UNIX CLI apps.

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