It can’t do the literal entire thing an operating system is supposed to do: manage applications and their resulting windows, in a sensible way. > I want to know what application is running. >> Sure it’s in the dock! > I want to find a specific application window. >> Go fuck yourself right to hell. > Wait, the taskbar doesn’t show the running windows, like it does on every other OS? It’s at least discrete right? >> It discretely takes up 1.5cm of the bottom of the screen at all times. It’s so discrete it doesn’t even need to use the corners. > Uh, alright, well that’s all the system space you need right? >> Yeah of course just that bottom inch or so … And a top of screen system level menu bar to display what windows does in the bottom corners. > /sigh/ ok, fine, I just want to be able to full screen a window and still see what else is open. >> Burn in hell and die. > I want to be able to easily switch left and right between open windows. >> Go full screen or I will shoot you. > I want to move an open window into the other monitor. >> You can’t because you’re full screen dumbass. > I want to let a window present a popup like they normally do. >> You can’t because youre full screen dumbass. Why would you be full screen? > I want an application like Slack to be able to popup and remove notifications when is appropriate. >> Choose to have every single notification persists on screen until you manually remove it, or miss all your notifications. > Can’t we trouble you for something in between, where we trust an application and let it manage them in a way that makes sense based on their context? >> You can trouble me for something in between these cheeks, shit stain. Like honestly, I fucking hate what an advertising and AI filled mess Windows is, but it can actually manage your windows and virtual desktops in a way that makes a modicum of sense. It feels like a single Apple product manager decided that the way that they use their computer (a single application at a time, no windows to manage) is the only way anyone does, so who cares if we implement a nonsensical full screen paradigm, it makes one tiny niche edge case slightly simpler. 
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This is not unpopular to me, MacOS is regurgitated garbage that forbids you from changing almost any goddamned standard behavior.
I have an almost 10-year-old MacBook Pro, and I gotta say - of all the tech I’ve ever owned, it’s hands down the most hassle-free experience I’ve ever had. It might not be for power users, but for shitposting and watching YouTube videos it’s been absolutely fantastic. It just works, and there’s virtually never any issues with anything.
The only negative things I have to say about it have more to do with its age than it being a Mac.
I’m very intrigued by the Framework laptop, but I dunno - I might just get another Mac instead. Especially now that they’ve brought back the card reader, HDMI, and a proper keyboard.
Dude, everything in this you claim you can’t do on MacOS I already do on macOS just fine. You are saying it can’t be done because you don’t know how to do it.
Attack them for the enormous corner radius, Liquid Glass, spotlight changing the top result right before you click on it, etc. don’t bitch about problems that literally do not exist.
I don’t even know how to limit my Mac to get most of those complaints. What did you do to it? In particular the only reason the taskbar doesn’t show all my running windows is because there are so many. There’s got to be the first 30 or so though.
Nor do I know how to avoid some of them on my Windows box.
The MacOS dock literally just shows running applications, not windows.
Eh, I don’t know. Kinda feels like it’s more of a reflection on your ability to learn.
Does macOS need some windowing improvements? Undoubtedly. But my 12 year old kid and my senior citizen mom can use it just fine, I’m sure you can too.
macOS has the unique ability to be good for newbies and power users (thanks to its unix underpinnings,) but falls short for people who have just enough computer knowledge to be dangerous (such as yourself.)
It is. Period.
For real. There’s a huge fucking reason most computers in the world run windows and not macos (about 70% and 15% respectively). It’s literally not an unpopular opinion, it’s practically a hard fact.
No offense to anyone, but to me MacOS feels like an operating system designed specifically for mentally deficient, disabled toddlers. So much ‘time saving’ in the background it’s actively wasting my time.
