At work we can choose between Apple laptops or Thinkpads, I choose thinkpads, using Windows and WSL.

Previously either VMware Workstation or Virtual Box.

Also I am not speaking from a position of no experience, as some projects require being assigned Mac Books, that I gladly return after delivery.

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prodigycorp 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

One thing Windows did right is keyboard based navigation. Most of the general public does not know or appreciate how close to productivity nirvana the alt key brings you.

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bayindirh 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Same is possible in KDE. Combined with hot corners, you can become "blazingly fast".

Once a colleague seeing me work looked at my screen, lifted his head and pointed to my colleague saying "Have you seen how this guy work, he's a maniac!".

Mastering the tool you have always brings speed and smoothness into your process, one step at a time.

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Geezus_42 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't feel like I've had much issue with keyboard driven workflows on any OS.

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bayindirh 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Any app can has its extensive set of keyboard shortcuts, but when it comes to DE itself, it's not always the case.

Microsoft has Meta+ and Alt+ combinations dime a dozen, and it's consistent across versions. KDE has extensive programmability which allows you to design you own. Both allows you to pack so many features into a small number of keys and work across applications or in general without thinking.

A terminal? It appears. A window? You call it without thinking. Ran out of space, a new desktop is just an instinct...

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spockz an hour ago | parent [-]

On macOS you can also assign a keyboard shortcut to any tool menu the app exposes. This works without the app knowing about it.

	▲	bayindirh 18 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm slightly aware of that, but I'm not sure how this works in real life where almost half of the "native" applications in macOS are Electron apps.
	▲	prodigycorp an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I’m a Mac dude through and through but its shortcuts don’t hold a candle to windows alt shortcuts. Alt shortcuts are progressively revealed to the user and the entire UI is operable without having to memorize a series of hand cramping shortcuts.

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BoxwoodSeed 24 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

It's alright, but a step down from tiling window managers that you can use on Linux.

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asdff 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

WSL is such a pain compared to just using a unix os from the get, which is of course what macos is. People forget that it is in fact a unix distro.

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happymellon 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Unix certification requires things like case sensitive file systems, which MacOS can do, but doesn't so they had to supply a special configuration for certification.

So no. The MacOS you use is not Unix.

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p_l 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No, people don't.

It's just that mishmash of OSFMK (with BSD APIs of 1991 or so) with random additions of newer APIs does not necessarily make it a great Unix to work with in 2026

	▲	asdff 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		People really get hard up about it shipping with some older versions of some tools. But if you are really that much of a unix nerd then you'd also know that is solved in 5 mins with a brew one liner.

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pjmlp 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Except UNIX and GNU/Linux aren't the same thing, which is why so many folks keep complaining about their UNIX experience in macOS.

They buy macOS and then complain macOS isn't Linux, duh!

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bayindirh 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

a UNIX distro which interfaces well with Linux. A fact which makes life way easier in the interoperability department.