Intel Management Engine
Isn't that just MINIX?
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I think it is slightly modified, but yeah I think it is basically Minix.
So is Minix one of the most popular OSes in the world?
Modern windows is Linux with a gui that can run windows apps, which is to say it's actually pretty great imo
Windows 11 is Linux like my car is a Bluetooth headset.
The NT Kernel is not the Linux kernel. You never need to edit a registry in Linux and the default filesystem is just objectively better in Linux
It is insane to pick MacOS over Windows in this day and age. It's a user experience nightmare.
Why the fuck does the OS reserve an inch at the bottom for a dock that doesn't even tell me what windows are open AND a mandatory title bar at the top AND forces all windows to have their own title bar at the top?
Use Edge or Firefox with vertical tabs on Windows and you legit have like 20% more screen real estate than OSX. And don't even get me started on window snapping or how every window has a full screen zoom button that none need.
I’m more comfortable with macOS than Windows and find many of the UX patterns on Windows to be grating. It doesn’t mean Windows is insane, just that I’m more accustomed to the macOS patterns.
FWIW the Dock can be hidden, and the menu bar at the top can hide as well when an app is in full screen mode.
FWIW the Dock can be hidden
Then I have no way of even knowing what apps are running, let alone what windows.
and the menu bar at the top can hide as well when an app is in full screen mode.
And then both my other monitors are black and unusable.
Neither of those assertions are true, I don’t think you’re arguing from an informed position.
They objectively are. If you hide the dock there is zero onscreen glanceable indicator to tell you what windows and apps are running, and full screen makes external monitors go black and be unusable until you exit.
That is not how full screen works on Mac. Why are you asserting something demonstrably false?
Literally just did it. Press the green button, app goes full screen, other two monitors turn black. Same thing happens when someone starts screensharing with zoom and it goes full screen.
Is it the application you’re using? Something bugged on your system? Is it an older system where maybe that was a shortcoming?
I pulled up my Mac which I use to use with multiple monitors many times and tested again to ensure I wasn’t crazy and nope. I can have two different full screen apps open at the same time, one on each monitor.
Or a full screen on one, and the other just showing windowed applications with my dock visible.
I'm not one to stan for mac because I'd rather just use Linux, but there's a little dot under the icon in the dock if the application is open (windows has a line which is definitely more visible), and you can change the size of the dock. I make it as small as possible and have it grow big when hovering. You can also put it on any side, doesn't have to be the bottom, or horizontal, and it can be hidden so it doesn't take any space unless you mouse over the edge. I think the top bar can work like that too. I hate having things pop up so I don't do that, I just try to minimize the resting screen space used. With my settings it takes up about as much space as the windows task bar.
You can also fullscreen apps and use multi desktop if you really need all your screen space. The laptop work gave me has a notch for the webcam so the os reserves space at at the top for fullscreen as well otherwise apps would be getting part of it cut off (i.e., search bar on slack), but it's 16:10 so whatever.
That being said... let it out bro, I get red in the face any time I have to use MS office products for work lmao
Tru64 is the greatest OS!
BeOS was the best desktop OS of its day, and from an end user POV still has features that I miss every day.
Have you tried Haiku?
I love it, though I haven't tried using it as a daily driver in a long time. I should give it a whirl!
AmigaOS
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