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Re:New 13-inch MacBook Pro by everdrive on Monday May 04, 2020 @03:13PM (#23072075)
MacOS has really stagnated over the years. I first started using it back in 2004, where its main competitor was pre-SP2 Windows XP. At that time you could really call MacOS advanced. At this point, it's sort of a wash. Windows does things better, Mac does other things better, and it mostly comes down to preference.

The old argument about security is mostly a wash now as well. (whereas with pre-SP2 Windows XP vs. OSX 10.4, you could legitimately claim that OSX was more secure.)

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Re:New 13-inch MacBook Pro by mekster on Monday May 04, 2020 @04:10PM (#23072694)
Back then, MacOS X didn't have enough third party apps to replace Windows workflow but the OS kept advancing on every release.

Now we have better third party apps on macOS than Windows but OS stopped advancing but who cares about OS anymore? It's all about apps nowadays.

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Re:New 13-inch MacBook Pro by vbezhenar on Monday May 04, 2020 @08:42PM (#23075093)
My apps on Windows: KeePass, Chrome, Thunderbird, Putty, Oracle VM, Idea, EditPad Pro, Paint.NET, Battle.net, Discord, foobar2000.

My apps on macOS: Chrome, Thunderbird, OracleVM, Idea, Battle.net, Discord. Can replace Putty with Terminal ssh (I like Putty more, but that's not a big deal), can replace KeePass with text file (less security, but not a big deal either), can replace EditPad Pro with TextEdit (worse replacement, but I can live with it), can replace Paint.NET with Gimp. Not sure about foobar2000, may be DeadBeef.

And there's no software on macOS that I would miss in Windows. So that's questionable about third-party apps, at least for me. The only thing that I loved in macOS is its Terminal, because I know bash, but recently I learned a bit of PowerShell, so it's not a big advantage anymore. Also I can always spin up CentOS VM if necessary.

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Re:New 13-inch MacBook Pro by checker on Monday May 04, 2020 @09:45PM (#23075502)
If you just want a unix shell this is going to be way lighter than a full-blown VM: https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/tutorial-ubuntu-on-windows#1-ov...
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Re:New 13-inch MacBook Pro by everdrive on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @07:42AM (#23078950)
A fair opinion for some, but if there is still more application support on Windows, I don't see how this is a benefit to MacOS.
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