Maybe it's because I'm more used to windows but my experience any time I've had to use mac at work is I'd rather just be fired. At least with a bit of work you can set windows up to mostly fuck off but I've never figured out how to do that with mac so it aggressively gets in my way when coding and doing qa

Maybe everyone has their biases, but MacOS is often terrible in comparison to Windows, at least in my experience. Hell simply things like snapping windows appropriately MacOS absolutely is trash at still.

On average, yeah, but when it's worse, it's the most bafflingly bad.

Like why is the only way to be able to open files in a hidden folder to remember a keyboard shortcut? There's no icon, and you can't type a subfolder name.

Windows’ weird UX of having that temporary view setting in the context menu makes no sense, but at least I don't have to Google how to do it every time.

While I agree with your overall sentiment, I also think that calling the article "useless and stupid" kind of ignores that the author explicitly states in the very first sentence that they can only present the perpesective of a long-time exclusive Linux user. Undoubtedly, had the author been a longtime user of both Linux and Windows, as is your case, then surely they would have had a different experience and conslusions all together.

I'm not saying the author isn't biased in favour of Linux - all I am saying is that they seem to be pretty upfront about it from the very get go. Had they pretended to supposedly be writing an objective, scientifically valid comparison, then I would concede there is an element of stupidity. But that's not the case - they're pretty transparent as to who they are and what perspective they are describing their experience from.

Tldr: arguably its more like some sort of guilty-pleasure entertainment for Linux users rather than "stupid"

I use windows 11 at work. I run solidworks, which is a 3D CAD/modeling program so my work computer is reasonably powerful with a decent chunk of RAM.

My laptop from 2020 uses mint. It's faster, although I havent tried to use solidworks on it because I'd have no idea where to start on getting that to run.

I ask out of respect the the devs that make our wonderful distros we love so much:

Have you donated to them and their work?

If there's not enough money to make you give it up, how much are you willing to give to keep it alive?

Microsoft screwed this up when they tried to make onedrive the default and therefore purposely made saving to disk harder.

Now you need to know the F12 shortcut to bring up the expected behaviour breaking decades of muscle memory.

Be fair though, "saving from a GUI app" is not exactly Linux's strong point either.

Click "save"; wonder which badly written save dialog this app is going to use; is it the one with the save button at the top? Or the bottom? Will it actually appear, or will it pop up below the window for Reasons, making you think the dammed thing has crashed? Maybe it's one with a list of favourite locations in the left maybe it's not... Maybe they're actually my favourite locations, or maybe it's an entirely different set of the developer's. If I'm lucky, there's a way to navigate to my home directory without going all the eay to the root and working up from there, more than likely not...

Best of all, it's one of those Save dialogues that thinks it's smart to enumerate the entire goddamned filesystem, network mounts and all, before it will respond to any input at all, leading to the window manager eventually fretting that maybe the application has crashed... Or perhaps it's one of those ones related to Dolphin that thinks it understands WebDAV mounts better than davfs, except that it actually doesn't and you end up saving to a temporary directory just so you can move the file where you actually wanted it from the commandline...

aaaaaargh

Don't get me wrong, I use Linux on all my machines and have been a Unix user since NetBSD 0.8 (33 years, fml...) But clicking "save" or "open" is one of those things that has me shaking my head thinking "how can it STILL be this bad" every time.

You can use PowerToys for Windows to (among other things) disable caps lock. I’m no fan of Microsoft, but they do provide PowerToys for free and there is a lot of useful stuff in it.

Stunning Windows goes still as user-friendly.

I mean I get we are supposed to hate Windows here but highlighting a specific thing that very few people would even want to try and use that as a reason to doubt it's user friendliness is just picking at straws. There's tons of reasons that Windows can be interpreted as not user friendly already.

Best guess : Web interfaces are known for being inconsistent because they don't follow any particular OS-specific design language. And I've seen people complaining about MacOS being really inconsistent, especially in its use of menu icons (what an essay!), and I've seen some people complain the bad UI practices come from iOS.

Thanks! Lol

I tried Thunderbird but it baffles me that I can’t view an email and have the list of emails open on the side.

You can do that. That is how I use thunderbird.

I don't remember if I had to change the default config, but I think it comes like that, no? Anyways, if not, it's probably an easy setting somewhere to get it how you like.

It's a feature most big Linux distros support, but Windows doesn't.