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It's easy to change Mac to your preferences. I have Alfred.app for key mapping, custom search. HazeOver.app to dim background windows. Alt-tab.app for window switching (making it look like Windows 10). NightOwl.app to switch to dark mode on a schedule. Karabiner.app, SensibleSideButtons.app, and the list goes on for me.

If a person is that sensitive to workflow, neither standard Mac or Linux will suffice.

I find Linux to be more difficult to customize because everyone is using different desktop distros which i think causes these types of apps to be buggy.



> It's easy to change Mac to your preferences.

Every solution you’ve posted there is a 3rd party application outside of macOS. Which really just proves my point.

If you have to resort to undocumented hacks to make changing basic things “easy” then it isn’t easy.

Whereas KDE (for example) provides all of that in its base install. You can roll with the defaults, which are pretty sane, or you can change them to suit your preferences.

> If a person is that sensitive to workflow, neither standard Mac or Linux will suffice.

That’s a pretty absurd conclusion. We aren’t talking about computer illiterate people here. We are talking about skilled IT professionals having personal occasional preferences that differ from what the defaults are.

To quote Monty Python: We are all individuals.

> I find Linux to be more difficult to customize because everyone is using different desktop distros which i think causes these types of apps to be buggy.

The fact that everyone can run different desktop distros is further proof that Linux is easy to customise!

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with preferring macOS. If that’s what you find better to use then good for you. But it’s a really large stretch to argue that Macs are more customisable or easier to customise than Linux systems.


> It's easy to change Mac to your preferences.

I don't think it's easy… you need to somehow magically know about this undocumented "alfred", hope it isn't malware, download it.

On plasma I open systemsettings, I search "shortcuts" and I can change all of the KDE ones in one place.

I think having it already there is easier than downloading unknown undocumented app. But just my opinion.

> I find Linux to be more difficult to customize because everyone is using different desktop distros which i think causes these types of apps to be buggy.

Sure, server stuff is hard, but desktop is much more limited.




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