Why do people use macOS?

Why do people use macOS?
This review goes over all the Pros and Cons of macOS. I've used Windows and Linux extensively so lets dive into macOS. Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:59 The Good Things about Mac
01:21 macOS Terminal
02:01 Homebrew GIMP Install
02:29 macOS System Preferences
03:41 Mail Clients
04:02 DaVinci Resolve on macOS
05:35 The Bad Things about Mac
06:40 Gaming
07:17 64-bit Apps Only
08:17 Global Shortcuts
09:27 The Weird of macOS
10:06 macOS Extended Attributes
11:58 DaVinci Resolve Ryzentosh Issue

[simtastic]

This guy is genuinely my fav linux youtuber, he can actually see the value of other OSes and unlike some other linux youtubers he doesnt insult or belittle users of other OSes.

[catomajorcensor]

Fun fact: Microsoft Office was created for macOS before Windows even came out!

[TheMack]

Reasons for me using MacOS:
1. Working professionally as a Windows tech for 20 years takes a toll on your sanity.
2. I can focus on using really well developed apps, even if proprietary and non-free, and just let the OS stay out of the way, like an OS should do.
3. Appreciation of an OS developed by a company, with paid professional programmers hired to fulfill one vision, the commercial Apple vision of fully integrating apps, OS and devices into the "walled garden". It may be constrained, but the foundation is very solid.
4. The robustness and "it just works", no drivers, no registry, no .Net Framework, VC++ components, none of that bloat.
5. The ability to run MacOS, using the OpenCore rootkit, on a PC i built myself, with the components I choose. If nothing else as a proof of concept. It's a cool experience!

[nicechordwiwi]

macOS has the best audio system, much much better than Windows’ ASIO or Linux’s PulseAudio & JACK. Super low latency and requires no setup whatsoever! Great for musicians.

But for everyday task other than music production, Linux is pretty awesome!

[brentfuchs]

I’ve had a Mac for 25 years and a Linux machine for the last decade or so. The more time you spend in those two operating systems the more you realize what close cousins they are. Windows is the odd man out and, not being much of a gamer, I don’t know why I would want to use it.

[retroman]

macOS is a great operating system for both a user and a developer. All the apps (besides game) you'd want works, and because it's based off of BSD Unix, you find common functionality between Linux; and homebrew is magic. The major downside for me is its closed ecosystem. I want to be able to use whatever I want, not monopolize myself to one company.

[fatbeard]

Great video. I was a Senior Tech Advisor for 8.5 years till June 2019 until we lost our Apple contract. We never got to use the terminal or show the customers, it was all about showing them how to fix it themselves if it was a software issue. I am a LM19 user for several months now and was Win XP and 7 till both lost support. I realized the MAIN reason why people like Apple in general, is there synchronization between their devices and accounts, especially for parents to their children. That was it mainly, iPhone, iPod, iPad, WatchOS and Mac OS X and just MacOS, all had this sync that just technically worked. Crappy thing was when devices couldn't update any more, you technically had to upgrade, so they did a lot of buy back and you still had to pay a pretty penny. As for the scripts, they were fun to make, but it was a pain the @$$ to show a customer.

[fakecubed]

This is the most bizarre macOS review I've ever seen, that's coming from somebody who's used all three OSes for a really long time. You didn't show off hardly any of macOS's unique features, and you focused on things that 99.9999% of Mac users would never even know or care about. This is an interesting perspective from a hardcore Linux user, but wow.

[frankanderson]

As someone who uses it for music and photography -
1 It works seamlessly with any hardware I attach to it
2 It has a nice, clean and professional feeling interface
3 It works with my network NAS drive so much better than my Windows machine
4 in 9 years it's never crashed
5 No forced updates
6 No slow down over time with a bloated registry
7 It has all the software I want
8 And for someone who is now at the stage where they can't be bothered messing around with the system, it just works

[KTSpeedruns]

I mean, believe it or not, some people don't care about customizable interfaces and tweaking with OS functionality. They want to install a program, have an easy shortcut to the program, and have features that help their workflow. And plenty of people find the features of MacOS helpful to their workflow.

In a way, Apple products are built for businesses more than they're built for end users. When there's little in the way of changing the interface, a business can keep their apps and workflow very consistent and streamlined. Both businesses I work at have either an ipod or iphone for store use.

It's not all about having the most options and the most freedom. Sometimes it's just about the work getting done.

[electronics-girl]

I used MacOS as my daily driver from 2002-2021, and I finally switched to Linux a few months ago. There was a lot to love and a lot to hate about MacOS that I could go into. But instead, I'm going to mention the reason why a friend of mine uses MacOS, and can't really use anything else. She is visually impaired, and needs to use screen magnification (and "invert colors") in order to be able to read what's on the screen. She says that accessibility on MacOS is far better than accessibility on Windows or Linux. Although all the operating systems have accessibility features, the MacOS implementation is far more usable for someone who has to use it every day to get work done. She says "Microsoft hates their disabled users." Screen magnification on Linux is extremely clunky, and the Mac implementation is light years ahead of it. (This will vary depending on the desktop environment, but I'm not aware of any desktop environment that has screen magnification that's as usable as MacOS.)

[certs]

I used to use OS X during the 10.4 to around 10.7 when the versions were still named after big cats. During the XP vs Vista/7 era it just worked. As a photographer having colour calibration built in was huge too. Also when Macs ran on PPC hardware it was also a hardware choice. The G5s were pretty cool back then. Anyway, I started playing around with the terminal, installing Mac Ports and doing more with my computer. Eventually when I got a PC when PPC support dropped I switched to FreeBSD, then Ubuntu, BSD again and back to linux. I like Elementary in alot of ways because it reminds me of what OS X used to be and what some of us thought it was going to be when Steve Jobs was talking about OS X and open source.

[RichColvin]

I think you missed the point of macOS. It is for those of us who like doing work not managing computers to keep them running. Certainly it has a lot of things pre-configured or locked down, but the key point is that it gets the job done for 99.99% of what I do. And for that, I don’t have to spend a lot of time fixing things that break, applying patches, …..

[jovanymerham]

One of the things most people miss about apple is the amount of integration of services and apps across all their devices. I love Linux and its my main driver, but having the integration between Mac, iPad, iPhone is fantastic

[mohsenss]

I think there are just 3 groups of people that use macOS.
1-Apple lovers
2- macOS or iOS developers
3- music productors.

[almosthelpless]

Apple's ecosystem is impressive, I'll give them that. My issue is how locked down their hardware and software is. I've used multiple versions of Windows, different Linux distros (Arch on my desktop and Fedora on my laptop), and MAC OSX Snow Leopard years ago. When I used a Mac, it was fine, but I wasn't terribly impressed. There were certain programs I liked that weren't available on Mac (like foobar2000) that I couldn't find a good replacement for. Once I switched from iPhone to Android, that pushed me away from Apple more. Mac isn't very good for people who like to tinker with their operating system.
EDIT:
I'd recommend going with Pop OS! or Linux Mint to people who may be attracted to the interface of MAC OS and its ease of use. The Gnome desktop environment on Pop OS! is very similar to the desktop on MAC OS. Linux Mint is more similar to Windows and it's also easy to use and usually doesn't require additional configuration to make it functional (you can still do it if you want to add functionality or customize).

[trotro]

OSX Snow Leopard was the bomb. It combined Apple's ease of use/works out of the box approach with many power user features. Since then they only added their subscription stuff, fenced off the ecosystem, and cut out all power user things. Catalina broke the last straw for me, am on Ubuntu now and it's brought back power user fun.

[TacoJolly]

I worked at both apple and google. The underlying argument about MacOS/iOS vs Windows/Android/Linux or whatever is the starting point the company has when they are designing everything. Windows, Linux, and android assume you know what you're doing. Apple assumes you might not know what you're doing. At the end of the day, it really is about people's personalities. If you want to control or want to tinker, you don't like Apple stuff. If you just want to flip a switch and do a thing, then you're going to like Apple stuff. So, I really don't understand why people argue about this stuff. Use what makes you happy, productive, and sane.

[epicspieltime]

The "natural" scrolling option is a must for Trackpad usage, but I don't like it for a standard mouse-wheel. I really wish there was a way to switch it easier or set it for individual devices.

[josephroberts]

You missed a lot man.

Why I use macOS (though I do use arch for fun and gaming):
- Unix based system, must have for development. Coming from windows this was so big.
- Things like amethyst/yabai give me the ability to have a tile based windowing system, which I prefer. Can't do that on windows.
- Literally zero maintenance, perfect for work.
- Creative apps are just much better, necessary for work.
- the productivity apps in the apple ecosystem are second to none. Things like Alfred, Drafts, Keyboard Maestro, etc.
- I can configure/automate virtually anything I want with lua (with Hammerspoon)

I've been trying to go all linux for years, but stuff breaks too much. Might have to try nix.