Try Mac OS next lol. "Here, hold down alt, smack your left ass cheek, and tap dance around your computer to run this unsigned executable". It really feels like they're deliberately violating the principle of discoverability to stop your from doing things that they don't like.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They already just prevent you from doing things that they don't like.

Try installing an older app, it just gives the error that the app is too old.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

That's ageist. We should sue them.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Technically, Android does that, too, but the limit on that is a few years. If I'm not mistaken, the lowest version of Android that Google will allow a user to install through the Play Store is Android 12 (released in September 2020).

[–] nolight@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

After 3 years of using MacOS as a main OS, I am more than convinced it was indeed the intention.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can't even cut/paste in Mac OS without using your mouse and modifier keys. Like, seriously? Also, it's 2024 and they still don't have window snapping. Like what the fuck, Tim Apple?

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can tho? You can use arrow keys to move around the text, and hold down control to move by entire words in most apps. CMD + C to copy and CMD + V to paste (CMD is what they call the super key). But yeah, they're trying to push a pointer-centric design that nobody really wants instead of putting the keyboard first.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

That's copy/paste. There is no cut command in Mac AFAIK. There's only the move command, which requires an additional modifier when pasting. If there's a key combo for that modifier, then I would like to know what it is. The only way I know how to do it is with the context menu from right clicking and the modifier key. But still, why do they do it differently than every other operating system?

[–] Iamdanno@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Because they are smarter than you, and know what you need better than you do, duh!

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Cut is just Command + X. You can swap in Command for most of the windows shortcuts that use control. Why didn't Apple just use the Control button for Control things? That I do not know.

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

You could also just right click though /shrug

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

I'm a Windows user, but my church uses a Mac to run its projection and video recording. I'll admit it works pretty well for what we typically need it to do, but it recently took me like five minutes to figure out how to crop a picture because you apparently can't do that by simply opening the file and clicking the crop icon.

Mac's filesystem is an absolute mess, too. This might just be my own inexperience, but I've saved things like PowerPoints and videos in order to upload them, and then I'll go to the website to upload them, and I won't be able to find them because they're not in a specific folder or something.