[felipetrz]

MacOS is still stuck in the 90s skeuomorphic design bs, and prevents users from changing any aspect of the UI to achieve a minimum of comfort and productivity.

The UI is buggy, pop-up windows steal focus all the time, window management is pretty much nonexistent, there are slow animations with laggy focus changes.

It may be fine for a soft user who just uses a browser, but trying to do any serious work on a mac is a nightmare compared to a modern tiling WM on linux.

[bdcravens]

Is it? I don't see anything on my desktop I'd consider skeumorphic.

Perhaps I'm privileged, but to me using multiple monitors each with a full focus, and swipe gestures to move between desktops, is as useful as any tiling WM.

[flohofwoe]

For any "serious work" you'd spend 90% of the time in a terminal anyway, so that's not much of an issue tbh (ok, admittedly that's a very coder-centric perspective).

[bdcravens]

Those talking about "serious" work are usually gatekeepers.

Perhaps the revenue my code generates isn't "serious", but I'm happy to sit down at any Mac with Visual Studio Code and drag and drop my way to the bank instead of spending hours getting my dotfiles to artisanal perfection.

[felipetrz]

You'd at least have to switch between your terminal and a browser window, which already hits macos' horrible focus bugs when window switching.

[flohofwoe]

True, except that the weird Alt-Tabbing behaviour on Mac is not a bug, but it's supposed to work that way (it switches between applications - even applications that don't have any windows open). I don't like that behaviour either, but technically it's not a bug even if it feels like that when coming from other desktop environments.