This is some boomer level “hurr hurr” bullshit that is just patently not true. Keep giving Microsoft credit it doesn’t deserve.
Right? Windows is like a Tesla. One of those wankpanzers that cut off your fingers, brick in the car wash and immolate their drivers.
The trashing of the Apple machines is undeserved, but the Windows one is relatively accurate.
Windows is the thing that everybody uses, like a car. But, it should be a modern car where the car manufacturer requires you to pay a yearly subscription to unlock basic features that shipped with the car. It’s a car that you can’t fix yourself, and have to take to an authorized service station where they pay a fee to get access to the tools that allow them to diagnose the car.
I don’t know what the Mac one should be. A modern Mac is really powerful. It’s a Unix machine with a clean and polished UI. But, it’s true that it shields the average user from the complexity if they don’t want to dig deeper. Maybe it’s a modern Bugatti. A luxurious vehicle that has obscene power under the hood.
Jeepers. These comments. I agree with you. I love Linux, but, unless you’re lucky enough to have perfect hardware, Linux is still a bit hard to use. Mac and Windows are heading that way too. Macs require a Mac, and new Windows PCs have hardware requirements as well. I’m on my third distro for one of my Linux PCs because of hardware issues. I love Linux, but sometimes it’s a pain.
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The better metaphor for the Mac would be a bicycle.
It’s a walled garden, so maybe more like those rideshare e bikes or scooters.
I dunno. I won’t mock a person for using Mac.
Microsoft would be more like a cybertruck. Complete with the catching fire bits.
The truth:
The only way that has any accuracy is if the Linux photo has a button that quite literally manages most of the other buttons for you, and the more complicated stuff exists really only if you want to do it manually.
You can get by just fine literally never touching any of those buttons day-to-day. But they’re there for the people who want to get down in the mud with their operating system.
Remove the chocks, fire up the engines, head to the taxiway. Checklists and walkarounds are for noobs. If you get some red flashing lights, just do like the flight sim videos and tell it to shhhh.
windows is the one that should be the toy wheel here.
macos is unix, and quite solid
and im a big apple hater.
I have always hated Apple the company… the products are way too overpriced and nerfd but Ok overall
Lol, call me back when they support bsd jails. Or a five button mouse. Or a decent amount of RAM. Or a package manager. Or more than 2 ports. Or an SDCard slot
i mean, its obviously no linux…
wait, it doesn’t support five button mice?
no way this has to exist 😂
My 2022 macbook pro has a charging port, four USB-C ports (one of which can be used for charging as well), an HDMI port, a minijack port, and an SD card slot.
I use homebrew for package management, and have yet to be dissatisfied with that.
This machine also happens to have 32 GB of RAM.
I don’t know about mouse-support, but I mostly use my keyboard for everything, and have yet to miss having more than two buttons and a scroll wheel on my mouse. With my previous (2012) macbook however, I used a five-button mouse sometimes.
Really don’t know where you get your info on macs, but you it seems you missed the phone when you were called back sometime around 2010.
Brew is shit. I’ve had to use it, and wouldn’t chose to ever again. 32gig of RAM? For professional work? What is this, 2009? 4 ports is good, and good to hear about the sd-card finally. And you’re supporting the mac mouse? With the charging port on the bottom?
You may think it fine. But for the money I think Macs are vastly inferior to a decent thinkpad, dell, or even HP
What are you smoking that 32gb of RAM is 09? 32gb is more than enough for most users in 2025, hell 16gb is still quite enough for most use cases.
Most mac users I’ve known either use the touchpad or MX Master, very few use the magic mouse. And build quality is much better than the equivalent plastic garbage from HP or Dell.
Flip Windows and macOS and I think the meme works again.
I think there is an argument to be made here. About window shitty, inconsistent, obscure ui. That you constantly have to Google to figure out where are your settings. unlike macOs much more streamline UI
MacOS is so much better than Windows in every way. The amount of software available is crazy. So many nice apps, menubar tools, finder alternatives etc. And they’re generally nicely designed and updated, which very much isn’t the case for Windows. Using Windows has been a horrible experience for the past 20 years, and it wasn’t great before that. Want some basic simple app for a specific thing? It’s either some heavily bloated shit that costs money and takes up way more system resources than it needs to or it’s a several-decades-old thing that just doesn’t work anymore.
Mac is in this weird bubble where it can be the kid with a toy wheel or the airplane cockpit.
Mostly people using it are using it like a baby toy though
As much as I hate MacOS I love their interface aesthetic.
MacBooks are legitimately just superior laptops, especially now that apple silicon is well supported. I don’t like iPhones or their desktops, but the laptops are pretty much unmatched in terms of portability, features, battery life etc
I am an unabashed Linux stan but I use a macbook to ssh into my Linux boxes because there is no Linux laptop which is half as good.
That’s why I use Pop!_OS as my daily driver distro.
Same. Clean, modern, responsive.
Most importantly: decluttered.
Pop!_OS gang rise UP!!
Reporting for duty!
And it’s an official Unix system, which seems to bother some Linux users.
Anyone can become an official unix system if they would pay up. Random rhel rebuilts were ‘official unix system’ at one point or another.
POSIX compliance jealousy? 🤪
If you access the guts of a Mac through CLI tools, I have some questions. Is it legal from the Apple point of view? Will it void your warranty?
There are a couple of safeguards, but by and large you can. And
terminalis a pre-installed Apple app, of course it’s Apple “approved.”And a lot of those safe guards (like the System Integrity Protection) can be turned off, if that’s what you like. The terminal together with the homebrew package manager make macOS a really good place to be, if you can’t get rid of some software that won’t run on Linux (like the Adobe suite).
No, using a Mac won’t void the warranty. It’s not a secured platform in the way iOS or a game console is.
I’d still never buy it, but it’s good to know.
As an engineer, I would rather develop on Mac than any other OS. I have shit to do and need to work in a POSIX compliant OS without bloat, while also not worrying about my OS install getting borked arbitrarily because I looked at it wrong.
Weird, I’ve been forced to use a Mac for work, never liked it. I prefer Debian or other non-rolling-release distros with long term support, and haven’t had a Linux install get messed up in many years (since I used Arch, and something went wrong with my proprietary Nvidia drivers after an update).
As another engineer, I won’t touch another Mac until it allows me to upgrade memory and disk without buying a whole other unit.
Never had to upgrade memory or disk in the lifespan of the machine. What really makes a difference though is 20 hours of battery life. You can run around the office without worrying about staying plugged in.
It’s an older meme sir but it doesn’t check out anymore.
For the love of Pete, not this again.
Many flavors of Linux are more simple and user friendly than Windows or Mac.
Mac is unix-based and very similar to Linux in many ways.
Windows is like that car that Homer Simpson designed.
My 97yo grandma uses Linux without even being aware what OS she’s on. Web sites open the same. Telegram works the same.
Anyone saying Linux isn’t user friendly hasn’t used it in decades or ever.
Most Windows/macos users wouldn’t be able to install those either so that’s a non argument.
Linux is user-friendly, but it is way more customisable than either Windows or MacOs
That’s true, but I’ve been using it for 25+ years and prefer stock kde experience. Daily driver for work and play. Fewer issues than windows for sure. I can’t figure out macos so I try to avoid it.
And she does all of her own updates and compiles when libraries shit the bed. Right. What’s her favorite cmd line function.
None of that happens though and cli is not needed for most users. Updates are automatically pulled and installed whenever she restarts. Worst case scenario she knows to press down once during boot to select previous snapshot.
Bullshit. You guys live in fantasies.
Pretty much every rolling distro works this way. Nothing fantastical about it.
If you want even more set-it-and-forget-it setup you can use any immutable distro. OpenSuse MicroOS in my grandma’s case.
You realize you can set up commands that get ran on start up, right?
Including one to update apt or whatever package manager and then upgrade.
Most versions of Linux can handle installation with no user input, or leaving the session. Kernel updates require a restart, but the update is already installed.
(Whether you should or not is an entirely different matter.)
What distro does she use? Mint?
OpenSuse
Your grandma is one of the cool ones.
