My justification for this is that Apple will likely drop support for my iMac Pro next year, and so EOL will be reached in ~2026. It’s not an M1 Mac, though. I think macOS is better than Windows, but not as good as GNOME. That’s probably an unpopular opinion 🙂
Sadly, I would still need After Effects regularly and inDesign on rare occasions. We weren’t able or willing to shift our workflow from inDesign to Affinity Publisher. And I have yet to learn Natron well enough to replicate what I need to do in After Effects. I can only hope running Affinity Photo in WINE will be realistic in 2026…and honestly, that prospect isn’t looking bad at all.
I should probably get around to using that, but I don’t use macOS enough.
But in terms of things that bugged me about macOS:
Why do I need to install a third-party driver to record my desktop audio?
Finder. I could do bullet points just on Finder.
Awful window management and whatnot. Virtual desktops are better than Windows but buggy/clunky. Hopefully Yabai fixes this.
Applications hanging around in the background after quitting the last window.
Terrible support for games! Why don’t they just support Vulkan like everyone else?
But it has many of the programs for UNIX-like systems, which makes it more homey. I’ve generally found it much more comfortable than Windows, once set up to my specifications. It also doesn’t annoy the hell out of me with stupid things in the start menu, constantly trying to convince me to use Microsoft products, and just generally being a nuisance. If I didn’t love GNOME so much more, then I would be using macOS all the time.
Oh that’s cool! Might even consider using Asahi. I’d have to justify it… somehow. MacOS is pretty good already!
My justification for this is that Apple will likely drop support for my iMac Pro next year, and so EOL will be reached in ~2026. It’s not an M1 Mac, though. I think macOS is better than Windows, but not as good as GNOME. That’s probably an unpopular opinion 🙂
Sadly, I would still need After Effects regularly and inDesign on rare occasions. We weren’t able or willing to shift our workflow from inDesign to Affinity Publisher. And I have yet to learn Natron well enough to replicate what I need to do in After Effects. I can only hope running Affinity Photo in WINE will be realistic in 2026…and honestly, that prospect isn’t looking bad at all.
Honestly the hate against MacOS developers is kinda unfair. Its a great OS!
The only thing I miss is tiling window managers (i3, bspwm, awesome, xmonad etc), but its not enough to make me leave MacOS…
Tiling window managers exist on macOS. I think most people use Yabai: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
I should probably get around to using that, but I don’t use macOS enough.
But in terms of things that bugged me about macOS:
But it has many of the programs for UNIX-like systems, which makes it more homey. I’ve generally found it much more comfortable than Windows, once set up to my specifications. It also doesn’t annoy the hell out of me with stupid things in the start menu, constantly trying to convince me to use Microsoft products, and just generally being a nuisance. If I didn’t love GNOME so much more, then I would be using macOS all the time.