Seems kind of drastic. In my experience, most people who have a problem with MacOS are simply not devoting enough effort to learning to use it. I was used to switching between Windows and every single desktop environment and window manager imaginable for Linux so using a Mac has never been remotely difficult or stressful for me. It’s a hell of a lot more familiar than Windows given that it has a real terminal.

Finder? I don’t really have a problem with it. I feel like it’s just as full featured as what you get on Lennox or windows.

Not quite. They’ve tried to adapt some iOS stuff to Mac now that iOS is by farther bigger operating system, but Max are at the core Unix, and you can access everything. You have a zsh shell and can do whatever you want with it. For instance if you get sick of the music app opening, just go remove the x flag from the executable. Can’t do that on an iPad. It’s really quite a capable desktop operating system and after using Linux for 15 years, I decided that I was tired of spending six days a year trying to configure my sound card and I’ve been pretty happy with a MacBook.

I spent about a decade and a half using solely Linux, and one thing I really appreciate is that if a particular distro or upgrade had some behavior I didn’t like, I could just switch to a different desktop or window manager. I went back and forth between gnome, windowmaker, KDE, LXDE and so on many times.

The scroll thing is annoying. I like the “natural” scroll on a touchpad but not a mouse also.

The multi desktop is the same as on Windows and Linux… I don’t use it on any system. I like how MacOS handles fullscreen apps better than either of those.

You can disable the startup sound very easily: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102230

I have only used mirroring to external monitor and not extending a desktop, so I don’t know. As far as maximization I personally hate windows expanding when I move them to the top of the screen. It’s rarely what I want so I turn it off. If I want to maximize it, I hit the green button.

You uninstall Apps by dragging their folder from the Applications folder to the trash can.

Closing the window and leaving the application running is how MacOS has worked forever for some Steve Jobs reason. I am used to hitting Cmd-Q.

The folder stuff can be weird. The way the Desktop icons work is one of the worst aspects, thigh they kind of fixed that (using expanding smart folders or whatever used to be chaos if they had a lot of items in them).

You can check the usage of a Volume from right clicking it in Finder and choosing Get Info. Or just df -h

In what ways does it aggressively get in your way?

And start a chain of government gas stations, too

Oh my, let’s get dramatic here.

Yes, that’s right. I believe that the concept of fresh air helping people in a closed room is not novel. In fact, many people are aware of co2.

But back in real life where we’re not angsty dweebs who confront people about minor comments online, I was really just making fun of corporate management culture. Hope that helps your understanding.

I think that when people say they need fresh air, they are likely to be thinking that. Many people in a closed room for a time makes the air “stuffy”. People may not realize it is CO2 on an explicit intellectual level, but realize it on another level.

What about “I’m opening a window / going outside for some fresh air”?

Management bros discover ventilation. Amazing. Here’s your $160,000 consulting fee

okay, thanks for clarifying. Sorry about having to be kind of pedantic.

Did you read the title? It says to spend Walmart and Amazon’s money on AI. And you said “those companies aren’t profitable either” which would mean, using normal rules of English grammar, that “Walmart and Amazon aren’t profitable and OpenAI and Anthropic aren’t profitable either”. So what are you talking about? What does “either” mean?

What do you mean by either? Walmart and Amazon make tens of billions in profit a year if not a quarter.

Thus transferring their money to openAI, Anthropic etc? How does that help?