macOS UX Comparisons

I find the macOS UX to be inferior compared to Windows. This is mostly a matter of habit, and what people are used to and how they expect things to behave.

Could you elaborate why it's been more pleasant than OSX, please?

I see a lot of people like me in this thread: We like Apple and Mac but certain aspects are less than ideal in our setting.For me I have found elementary os (linux based) to be a good step closer to perfect for me. ("Normal" alt-tab, menus follows windows (if they exist at all), etc.) All while being fast on less than stellar hardware and pleasing to my eyes.(For people who love Mac: Don't even try. I can almost assure you'll find some color nuance, alignment issue etc.

I have been a long time MacOS user and the app/window switching never made any sense to me. Windows and Linux just does it better.

I’ve been using DOS, Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and now macOS over the past 30 years. macOS is still the least shitty OS out there from a user point of view, in my opinion. Window snapping on Windows and various Linux environments makes my blood boil, so I have never missed that in macOS. Also, it’s hard for me to accept that Windows has better UX than anything. There are at least two different UI frameworks at play in Windows, the new Windows 8-derived stuff, and the classic Windows 2000/XP W

I thought windows had bad UX until I tried macOS. Maybe my taste is different than others but I found macOS UX to be really confusing. I particularly disliked the iconset. Interestingly this is not true for iOS and iPadOS, those are magnificent.

I get it, for some people it doesn’t matter. There is zero difference between xfce (Gnome, Windows, etc) and MacOS.But for some people, they have used MacOS since OS X 1.0 (or for me, System 7) and there is a particular "Mac" way of doing things. There are expectations and standards for how the system and user interface should work and respond.Perhaps you could attribute this to baby duck syndrome. You could also attribute it to people having different mental models for the world

To me, MacOS just seems like the best desktop UI and UX out there. I'm talking about stuff like font rendering, gestures, multiple desktops, etc. All of these things on the Mac have clearly had a huge amount of thought put into them. And since these things mediate your entire interaction with the computer, it's a big factor for me.Windows seems to be a combination of 90's era throwbacks and 2edgy4you Metro design. If they've managed to improve this stuff recently I would b

As a long time Linux-only-user (since 1996...) who is now forced by management to work on a MacBook: macOS just feels snappy. Things are where I would expect them to be. Files in the finder are actually what I searched for, and finding stuff is fast. UI animations give a clear indication on what is happening.I still prefer i3 ... but I can understand why a nontechnical user might prefer a mac device to a windows(10) device. Someone at Apple clearly knows about UI/UX.

Finally the UX on mac is almost half as good as a 15 year old linux window manager.