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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, I had to do some weird dragging to install an application!?

Ah yes, the notoriously unintuitive feature known as… drag and drop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Err, why couldn't they do the double click like everything else?

Double click and then do a drag and drop, totally intuitive.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s… exactly what you do. macOS software is usually distributed in DMG files (compressed disk images). You download the DMG, open it (with a double click in Finder), then drag and drop the APP file to your Applications folder (or wherever else you want it to be).

Speaking of APP files, the structure of macOS apps is vastly superior to that of Windows, imo. Linux generally has them both beat, but there’s some additional complexity there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have to agree with the other person actually. The drag and drop thing is kind of weird. They ought to just automate it.

Other than that I think Mac is fairly easy to use, and more customizable than people realize.

I do wish they had better window management though. GNOME and Windows both make window snapping so much easier than Mac. And the support for third party hardware on Mac is pretty bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The drag and drop thing is because it's an app file. "Installation" is just putting the file in your application folder, or wherever you want it. Apps are (usually) just files, unlike on windows, so you don't need to go through a complicated installation process, just put them where you want them (usually the applications folder).

The window snapping thing is annoying (but it's not apple's fault, Microsoft has a patent on it lol). There's a bunch of free apps that add window snapping though 🤷‍♀️