@prologic@twtxt.net To elaborate a bit more:
I’m a control freak and a tinkerer. Almost everything I do in the realm of computers is about understanding how it works and being able to tweak it. I rarely care about “just getting things done”.
And I’m tired of fighting. Sure, what I want to do might be possible on macOS or Windows or Android or whatever – but those systems are not meant to be used like I want to. On the other hand, Linux and BSD give me all the tools I need and they don’t get in my way (usually – OpenBSD can be quite opinionated).
Smartphones and tablets are a lost cause to me. Most manufacturers obviously hate it if the user is in control of anything, so they lock it all down. Android is the lesser evil (last time I tried it wasn’t that hard to write your Android app, but that was like 10 years ago) and it offers you slightly more options than iOS (simple things like settings your own ringtone …), but it’s still not something that I enjoy using.
More: gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2021-08/2021-08-25–the-ideal-smartphone.txt
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Agree on the Smartphone ecosystem. Developing Mobile apps is just way too hard and not worth the time and effort. macOS on the other hand isn’t as bad as you think (have you tried?) You really can pretty much treat it as a UNIX system (because it really is under the hood). I install and use pretty much all the standard tools and software I ever did on Linux even still to do this day and I’ve been UNIX as an IDE for some decades 😅
@prologic@twtxt.net macOS is the standard OS for our employees. I’ve seen and used it plenty in the last 10+ years. 😅 Never as my main OS, though, because I have zero motivation to do that. 😅 What I have, works fine for me.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de And that’s fine 😅 I just don’t want any confusion over the inflexibility of macOS, I mean it’s basically a UNIX OS, no matter how hard one can argue over all things Apple (App Store, various built in Aps, the Desktop Environment, etc)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Btw I wasn’t able to follow your gopher link via my gopher proxy https://gopher.mills.io/uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2021-08/2021-08-25%E2%80%93the-ideal-smartphone.txt