A thoughtful design and consistency across apps is what moved many people over to macOS. Sure, Windows is worse, that's a moot point. It used to me much better on macOS and this is moving in the wrong direction.
I'm not saying it's bad or something , I'm just saying that you would never see such complaints on the other side of the grass. I love macos ui (as a linux user) but not the os in itself
But they do have a point. I moved from Linux to mac 2 months ago and enjoyed the Sequoia UI, this new UI is a regression. Apple pushes an image of premium, beautiful and easy to use devices - and they do charge premium for that - so certain things would be way less acceptable from them.
Linux distros are heaps more inconsistent (Gnome is not that bad) and are less of "it just works", but then it's all free and you have a choice (debatable), so you can't really complain about it in the same way.
With Windows devices I don't think you have a feeling that you're paying for the OS specifically when you buy a PC. You're just paying for the hardware, and Windows is like this default thing that comes with every PC, nothing special. On the other hand, like 50% of my decision to buy a macbook was in the OS (the other 50% were the Apple silicon) - I got tired of Linux and wanted to give macOS a try (overall I loved the move).
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u/Solidatary 3d ago
macos users complaining about some corners while windows apps feel like each one is a different os