• SadSadSatellite @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    While I loath windows, I would still put it above Mac if only for the ability to put windows on whatever you want. Even if Mac is more polished, the fact that it only works reasonably on vastly overpriced, mostly unrepairable hardware kills any appeal it would have. Add in apple’s tendency to gimp devices as if a three year old machine is at deaths door, and I’ll go to a customized windows os every time.

    Also the gaming thing. It’s not pinnacle, but it’s also not trivial.

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      1 hour ago

      I’m highly critical of Apple, their philosophy for proprietary hardware with an aggressive stance against right to repair, and some particular design flaws on specific models of their machines that are unacceptable for the price point they sell their products at. Not to mention their ball coddling of the fascist fuck in the white house.

      But MacOS is definitely superior to Windows, game developers not focusing on MacOS be damned. The bloat on Windows is beyond overkill, and MacOS’s Unix based build for ultra specific hardware runs so much more efficiently. I used to play around with a hackintosh back when Mac OS X Lion was around.

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      4 hours ago

      I used my 2011 iMac until two years ago and you can easily install Windows and Linux on a Mac so the whole gaming thing just isn’t a valid complaint. It’s not Apple that makes devs not port to MacOS as much (same with Linux). I have a laptop from 2015 that microshit decided can’t run Windows 11, so they’re even worse. You’re objectively misinformed.

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      6 hours ago

      My MacBook Air is five years old still has 92% battery it’s not even close to deaths door for either me of Apple. My XPS 13 is five years old and has had its battery and thermal paste replaced.

      I haven’t played a video game since Oregon Trail was new.