Hmm, that's a good point actually! Hadn't considered that!

It’s like the famous artist putting a clause in a contract that they wanted bowls of M&Ms with the blue ones removed.

Not because they necessarily cared, but because it functions as an easy-to-verify proxy for whether the venue actually read the contract.

The artist was the band Van Halen; the forbidden color was brown

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/

Eh, it might be or it might not, why is that a valid indication that everything else is wack? There certainly are other things that are bad, maybe many, evidently, but I don't think the corner problem is a fair indicator of that exactly. Numerous things can be discretely bad and poorly directed without there being some ebola virus of bad throughout

That’s funny to call Mac OS a hack compared to windows. Now windows is trying to be backward compatible with DOS and that’s… something. But when we read blog posts explaining why things are how they are in windows i always get the heebie jeebies.

> compared to Windows

I never said that

Well sure we can compare it to niche OS like Linux or vaporware. But without comparison then we probably aren’t taking into account the real life complexity of a desktop OS.

As a related anecdote, my friend said my car was ugly. I asked him what cars he thought looked good. He said “I don’t like cars”. As a result I realized his opinion was worthless

You can compare it to prior versions of macOS, if you insist on assessing it from a relativistic standpoint. Apple didn't have this issue 10 years ago.

Apple didn't have this issue 1 year ago :-)

When a computer doesn't boot you don't need to compare it to another to see that it's broken. Some things are just obvious without comparison.

Calling linux niche is funny. Most used OS on the planet.

I guess you are only interested in the desktop looks part which on Linux is done by different window managers (like KDE, Gnome, Sway, ...) which can compete with MacOS in my view.

I was recently forced to switch from Gnome to MacOS Tahoe and the UX is so bad it's frustrating. Mission Control has no features apart from switching windows it seems (can not close windows, not change dock icons which all works on Gnome). Password fields often have no option to view the cleartext entered. This is especially confusing because symbols that I used daily are suddenly not printed on my keyboard anymore and I have to memorize shortcuts to enter them. In finder I see no way to go to the parent folder, isn't that something people on macs do? It just feels like it's years behind open source alternatives...

Concerning your car story: have you tried other Operating systems? Otherwise your opinion might be worthless here...

On the desktop, yes, niche. [There are things like Android with a Linux kernel that I wouldn't call Linux in the sense of a full OS.]

I know it's popular to shit on Windows (and often it's even justified), however DOS compatibility is long gone. It was still available in 32 bit Windows 10, but not in 64 bit versions.