MacOS doesn’t even have native preinstalled paint app. Paintbrush is dogshit. You can’t even resize an image just by dragging the corner. Absolutely worthless.
MacPaint was one of the best apps in the 128k Mac computer in year 1984. MS Paint started out as a clone of it. Apple spun it off with Claris and didn’t continue to bundle it. It’d be cool to see a modern MacPaint.
I don’t find key bindings in MacOS consistent. The first thing I started missing from Windows is the F2 button for renaming things. I can do that everywhere in Windows. In Mac there’s no keyboard shortcut for it.
One way to look at it is that Apple, as a computer company, was a complete failure. They were on the edge of becoming insolvent. In fact, most Apple users don’t know that Microsoft/Bill Gates rescued Apple from meeting an unsightly end by investing $150 million (maybe more, I don’t remember) into the company. This would be equivalent to a billion dollar+ investment today.
Standards evolve over time. The Mac was not the first GUI and neither was Windows, Solaris, Linux (various) etc. Sometimes being very different is cool, and sometimes it isn’t. That’s what Macs felt like to the rest of the world. Weird. Perhaps unnecessarily weird. As the world was getting used to having a capable computer on every desk, Apple, in my opinion, continued to shoot itself in the foot by not listening to a user base 10x to 100x the size of their at all.
Apple insisted on silly things, like having a single mouse button and, yes, a single menu bar.
One of the fundamental differences between macOS and Windows is the menu bar. There’s only one at a time, and it belongs to the program which has the focus. A corollary of this is that you don’t need a window to have a program.
The core difference is that macOS is (originally) document-oriented. You could care less if an app is opened or not, window == document, whereas on Windows, window == program.
Each progressively grew into the direction of the other (e.g Finder progressively losing spatial features and Explorer gaining them, MDI interfaces on macOS vs the win7 taskbar being actually more of a Dock…)
The Finder is atrocious. It’s the worst default macOS app and probably the worst program period I’ve ever used. It’s been so dumbed down that it’s basically unusable for anyone slightly experienced.
- There’s no way to create an empty file
- There’s no easy way to cut a file/folder (Cmd-x doesn’t work)
- There’s no (?) way to keep everything consistently sorted and aligned
- No “parent folder”…
Too many finger gymnastics.
MacOS is an old relic from 1984…
At the same time, Windows 10 on my Dell laptop will heat up, spin the fan noticably and something called “Service Host: Local System” will consistently use 48 – 52% of CPU when the laptop is sitting doing nothing at all, with no applications open. I really can’t understand what it’s doing but have a hard time taking it seriously as an operating system.
That’s actually an interesting monetization scheme. “You can use our software for free, but when your computer idles, we use x% of its computing power for mining cryptocurrency”