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* Consistent keyboard shortcuts. One can get by with a keyboard for way longer on macOS. It makes general usage very efficient.

* Native bash terminal.

* Just works and the defaults are fine.

* homebrew package manager is quite nice.

* iPhone integration is pretty awesome (file air drops, calls, messages all available from macOS)




Agree with you on native bash and general fit and polish of the OS. However, when it comes to keyboard shortcuts, I strongly disagree. I used windows for about ten years, then moved over to Mac for the past ten. I still am not as comfortable with the keyboard under macOS as I was windows. Main culprits are tabbing between controls (many just don’t seem accessible) and different interpretations, across apps, of things like home, page up, etc.

Best example is finder: windows explorer, I could basically navigate by keyboard alone. Finder pretty much requires the mouse.


I think he meant what games you play.




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