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Not sure man, I just want a version of Microsoft Windows without all the telemetry and the ads and the aggressive control Microsoft has on the system via updates.

Time and again they keep changing the default browser, throwing ads into Start Menu, blocking specific applications (such as Chrome etc. Bad example because Chrome is an evil junkyard. Imagine them blocking Google Drive one day because they want you to use OneDrive).

In general WSL is great but the entire Windows system feels so outdated and full of duplicate layers thrown upon each other with modern UIs on top of old APIs with the old UIs not even deleted and taken care of.

The productivity and cleanliness of OS X keeps convincing me again and again to stick to the Macs as a platform - in my POV this is one of the few things Apple has gotten right (with Apple CPUs), after decades.



Now having used an OSX laptop at work, my main pain points are how _everything_ seems to be different for the sake of being different (keeping legacy Macintosh-isms).

My main pain points:

* Keyboard combinations, can't 'theme' them to just work like every other popular platform.

* Docking stations + Multi-Monitors. TONS broken here. Worst of all is how there's no way to just FIX the dock to a single screen's bottom. Though if you pick Left or Right it'll stay there and not jump between screens.

* Per task focus / lists / menus. I like the WM to fuse the taskbar to each 'parent' level task window, NOT a screen edge. Similarly, the WM shouldn't group window switching per task (which makes work among a group of tasks super tedious).

PS: if there's a good way of fixing these on a corp-managed device please let me know. I've failed to find some obvious search result with ~15 years of web search history of others having the same pain points. With any 'solutions' now obsolete as internal component names / control schema completely renamed / redesigned over time, while seemingly not fixing any of the pain points.


Make no mistake - it is not surprising to find UX issues on Macbooks. My main quirks that I hated and how I addressed them:

Note that the items below are based on my personal opinion only:

1. Finder always seemed to suck ass - been the same for 10+ years lol. I use QSpace Pro as my full-time file explorer/manager.

2. Alt-Tab behavior also sucked for me -having to hold down controls and no thumbnail views....fixed with the AltTab app.

3. Can't control system volume when connected to an external monitor not made by Apple. Fixed with an app called SoundControl

4. Spotlight is lame and slow as hell - fixed with Alfred

5. No clipboard manager built-in - I use an app called Copy'Em Paste for this.


Karabiner Elements, keyboard maestro, better touch tool can help a lot in "theming" key combos (though KE might be limited on a locked down laptop)





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