[itwillnotbeasy]

Have used multiple monitors with latest KDE, and never had an issue with display scaling - both fonts and icons look good, whereas in MacOS fonts are just terrible on external displays, so far tried 23" 1080p, 27" 1440p and 34" ultrawide 1440p with the same result. And KDE also allows changing external display scale, where MacOS only offer setting lower resolution, seriously, wtf?

That's a pity that in year 2022 apple sells notebook with only 16GB of RAM for $2000 and there is still no adequate alternative for the macbooks in terms of hardware, battery life and driver support.

MacOS feels so limited compared to KDE, even base functionality like alt+tab that shows windows previews(and not icons), or window arrangment with keyboards shortcuts or by dragging to the display corners, is not possible without 3rd party software.

[kcplate]

> MacOS feels so limited…

Honestly that is one of the main reasons I use it. Years back, I realized no matter how much I customized or tweaked my OS I was never satisfied. Might as well not be satisfied and not tempted to waste time tweaking. But, like anything, you grow used to what’s comfortable, so now I just prefer it. It just works.

[GekkePrutser]

What I hated about macOS was that things were constantly changed from under me for what I considered bad reasons (often marketing or change for the sake of change), and generally made things worse.

For example when they changed the virtual desktops to be no longer in a grid but in a row. That broke a lot of how I like to do things. In general a lot of changes in every release felt like regressions and many new features were unusable because I'm not exclusively on the Apple ecosystem.. So many of their smart stuff just won't work for me. Anything involving iCloud for example.

I'm really happy to have control back over my desktop with KDE. And it does satisfy me to adjust it to my preferences. But preferences vary of course!

[kcplate]

> I'm not exclusively on the Apple ecosystem

For me that is another reason it works well for me, I’m all apple and I am definitely dependent on that ecosystem for my sanity.

Hope your control gets you to that nirvana I could never achieve. I’ll be envious.

[GekkePrutser]

> For me that is another reason it works well for me, I’m all apple and I am definitely dependent on that ecosystem for my sanity.

Yes and that's Apple's goal of course, they are a hardware company. They want to sell as much as hardware as possible so they have no incentive to make things cross-platform.

I really lamented this while watching the keynotes. New features in Messages, things like iCloud keychain. Cool, but if I can't access it in Linux, Android or Windows, what's the point? Also, almost none of my contacts are on Apple's ecosystem and this means that any collaborative / messaging functions are also irrelevant. Here in Europe nobody uses iMessage.

In the end with every new release I could strike out most of the new features due to being not applicable and I was left with changes that I hated, very often changes to existing features meant to accommodate new ones. For example the way the new virtual desktops work was meant to accommodate the new full screen and split screen modes.

Another thing that bothered me is the way Apple pushes battery life. On my work Mac Mini I have set it to never sleep but still when I haven't used it for a few hours and go back to it, I can see everything playing "catch up" and being slow for the first few minutes. I think they call it "App Nap". For some apps I don't care but for others like Outlook (Apple mail is not allowed for work) I want them to be always be up to date. Apple make it very hard to turn this off. I'm sure they do this because they want to advertise huge battery lifetimes. But battery life is a non-issue on a Mac Mini. Energy saving is a bit of a thing but I'm willing to spend that little bit of power (because really it's not a lot) to have a responsive system when I go back to it.

It was stuff like this that bothered me more and more. Apple decides and you just have to go with it. One size does not fit me.

> Hope your control gets you to that nirvana I could never achieve. I’ll be envious.

It did already. It's not perfect but I don't strive for that. But my annoyance is much less than on Apple. I'm much happier with it. Part of it is that I don't expect or even want everything to 'just work'. I have no problem doing stuff in the terminal and in fact I prefer doing certain tasks there. Like bulk renaming files for example.

I don't miss much about macOS as a platform (and I still use it for work by the way). But I do miss some apps like Pixelmator. Gimp is definitely less good in my opinion. In particular I miss the ability to add simple shapes. But I still have to check out some KDE specific apps like Krita.

[pxc]

I hardly ever change my Plasma settings. Been using basically the same ones for years. IME you do settle in eventually.

[GekkePrutser]

Same here, 4K display (24") at 200% scaling and it looks beautiful.

This is on FreeBSD no less. Wayland support is currently broken for KDE on FreeBSD but X11 is fine for now.