Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
by shaan7 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:43AM
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Yeah thats the other thing I found fascinating about macOS, a bunch of useful features are very hard to discover. Mostly because you won't see any menu entries, but some sort of drag-and-drop will / alt+click will activate a very useful feature.
Their idea of being user friendly, I guess.
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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
by argvargc on Saturday April 03, 2021 @09:48AM
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Actually, this is one of my biggest problems with macOS. So many tremendously useful things are hidden.
Why do they do this? It's not good for anyone. I can understand this concept of "just do what's intuitive - try it!", oh what fun - but nobody is going to risk messing up the important files they're working with by randomly dragging things onto other things just to see what happens.
Just tell us how to use it.
Almost every (third-party) iOS app or game by comparison seems to have understood this basic concept of educating the user on how to use the product, but Apple falls far behind especially on macOS.
Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
by prestonbriggs on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:40PM
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Cynically, I think the publishers have a deal that Apple won't publish manuals.