[latexr]

I haven’t read the list in full, but some of the things you treat as impossible on macOS are trivial. On the first section alone, here’s two examples of not knowing about ⌥.

> Cannot get total file size of everything inside a folder

Press ⌥ with the context menu open and you’ll see it.

> OS X has a different concept of maximized that only does a true full screen, thus hiding your menubar and such.

And “only” is bolded. But again, press ⌥ and see the maximize icon (and behaviour) change.

One may argue what the “correct” default and optional/alternate behaviours should be (those are the names of the key: opt/alt), but they are there.

[ajford]

OS X has some shitty discoverability. I was required to use a macbook as my work system for a little over two years, and I never discovered those.

Would it not make sense to just put these kinds of things in the open? Why not have a fourth taskbar button? I don't remember seeing an option for maximize but not full screen anywhere, so I would just resize windows until I slapped Spectacle onto the system.

Not that I'm a windows user. I have a number of complaints related to usability on Windows as well.

[drewzero1]

I think I remember a setting in Finder's view options waaay back in System 7 that you could check to calculate folder sizes in list view. I usually left it off because it slowed down my (68k) Macintosh, but it was great if you had a screamin' fast PowerPC!

[Toutouxc]

You can still do that, I always do.