[andykx]

I find the list of things they won’t miss to be strange. I am not opposed to legitimate criticism of Apple’s hardware/software offerings, but I felt like they were kind of reaching to find things they didn’t like.

.DS_Store files? The startup chord? The dock?

These are all incredibly minor things. This read more like an attempt to justify a purchase than any kind of actual comparison or analysis.

As an aside, I may be totally alone here, but I never plug anything into my laptop with the obvious exception of a charger. I don’t need more ports and I don’t see them as a selling point. That said, I can easily imagine different use cases where they’d be useful.

[qz2]

.DS_Store is really really annoying for everyone who isn’t on macOS though. It feels like throwing trash on the floor in every room you go in.

It’s particularly annoying when you ram a USB stick in a TV and have to play “find which file is the film you wanted to watch”.

Granted we have our thumbs.db as well.

As for the solution, if you can switch to OpenBSD on a Thinkpad, having macOS to start with sounds a bit like choosing the wrong tool for the job.