As someone using android/windows in private life and MacOS for work, I can confirm. As long as its Apple, it works. But as soon as you use any third party software or hardware, its completly bugged.
Comment on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update
satai@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 months ago
Apple: just works.
My ass.
GenEcon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
mumblerfish@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I cannot even agree to that. Like I get that the settings takes minutes to reload after a reboot. And I need to get in there because it always resets my mouse speed to the slowest possible. But I cannot change it because there are no settings for the mouse directly after a fresh boot! It is so absurd.
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Using a mac daily for work, no it doesn’t. Some built in software features keep fucking up, external device or not. Like the “pause music” button, which stopped working entirely on my mac no matter if you press it on the builtin or external keyboard, the multi desktop which keep fucking up and putting apps on top of other apps that are fullscreen, making them barely usable…
We agree on the external device part though, it can decide to stop working with stuff you used for months for no good reazon
tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Courage. Magic. We think you gonna love it.
dasJot@feddit.de 3 months ago
I still think my 2012 Macbook Pro with the Highres screen was peak Apple. It’s been downhill ever since, but the current releases of macOS and iOS are a an extra special kind of crap. The worst part: it’s still miles ahead of Windows.
ferralcat@monyet.cc 3 months ago
Windows tends to work with ever you throw at it though. Plug it in and somehow it will find a way to work.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That is a side effect of being most dominant OS. Hardware manufacturers naturally support it otherwise there’s no point in manufacturing hardware.
CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Yup. Yesterday my mac turned my external display pink. The monitor was connected directly to the HDMI socket on the M1.
Tell me a more iconic duo than external devices and a panicking mac.
ndru@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This used to happen to me regularly with a Dell panel. It would turn anything white pink. I found creating a custom colour profile and playing around with it until the eyes were white again Signed it. Then occasionally it would decide to revert to the default colour profile for no reason.
Stupidly frustrating but I’m passing on the tip incase it helps.
CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 3 months ago
What I meant by “turned pink” is that the display showed only bright pink color and the mac display had a single corrupted line of pixels on it.
ndru@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh ouch. Haven’t experienced that.