You know those completely useless files (.DS_Store, ._foo.bar, etc.) that you see whenever you expand an archive or clone a repository from a developer who uses a Mac? Finder drops those turds.

Who cares?

Anyone who regularly works with FOSS. Which was the target demographic being discussed to begin with.

John does, apparently.

You can’t input paths for starters. That means you can’t open dot files or navigate dot directories. Of which there are a great many in FOSS. The answer is to open up a terminal and run ‘open .blah’, which is just an appalling work around to a simple problem. Even Windows handles this use case better and that’s saying something.

CMD+Shift+. reveals hidden files in Finder.

Great, another non-discoverable key combination I need to memorise. You can guarantee I’d have forgotten that by the time I next need to use it.

GUIs are meant to be simple for discovering features. I really dislike how Apple hides away all the useful features. It doesn’t need to be this way and it makes working with macOS a real pain in the arse.

You can input paths with “Go To Folder” (Command+Shift+G by default) but it's a bit cumbersome.