Surely it would be better to save one's passionate hatred for things that actually rise to that level, such as things that hurt people who can't just choose an alternative. I prefer to think of mere differences between operating systems as neither good nor bad, just different, and use whatever is most practical in any given circumstance, while trying not to get emotionally worked up about its downsides.

Everything about it or the developer experience? I use a VM for my dev work and then run the rest (which pretty much means "a browser", these days) in MacOS. Which works perfectly.

Not the original poster, but for me, everything. I'm the sort of user who likes to customize everything, and Mac (and other apple products) makes it hard to customize anything.

And I'm the kind of developer who will make pull requests to fix bugs that bother me, so everything being proprietary rather than open source is also a big pain point.

Nothing wrong with that, and I have no point other than I’m facinated by your approach to computing. I customize my iTerm2 theme, tweak Vim a bit, increase the cursor size and I’m done. What I want is to be able to get a new laptop, login to my password manager and be working within 15 minutes.

I’m a long time linux user who recently got a Mac, and I found it much more customizable than I ever thought. At least compared to ios it is seriously just a very old “linux” kernel with a better integrated user space.

Almost everything about it. It's pretty unusable for me all-around and just gets in the way of almost all my engineering.

I use Ubuntu for everything, and customize almost everything.

Ubuntu VM in a Mac isn't what I want. I want full access to all capabilities of the system, and no hassles with using all my GPU, RAM, and direct access to all disks and hardware interfaces. If I'm just going to sit in Ubuntu all day with VM resources maxed out, I might as well it be the host OS not the guest OS.

I personally don’t understand the whole concept of ‘hating’ someone else’s personal choice of OS.

I mean if the government mandated MacOS maybe you’d have a mature point instead of an infantile rant.

Someone expresses general displeasure with MacOS -> lambda Mac user has to come and say "It works for me, your opinion is thus misplaced". Every. Time. I don't know what's more infantile.

That's a lot of anger you're packing around there for an operating system lol

Yeah, that was my 1984-like daily minute of hate, except that Goldstein is now an OS. Better than hating people I guess? Also, other than "smugfaced", I believe I stayed pretty factual in my description. Still, gotta fullfil my obligations to the Party and all that, lest they start suspecting me...

Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition™

I do remember seething at hourly BSoD with Win98, now that you mention it. Like that one video where the guy starts attacking the computer.