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Same. I got a company provided MacBook and used it as my daily driver for a few years. Really tried to buy into the ecosystem. But some things just felt so clunky, so when next laptop replacement came after ~3 years it was back to Windows.

Which I'm not also always a big fan of. But the basic interactions just make more "sense" in my head. I thought it was just familiarity in the beginning, but even after getting familiar with my OS X (at the time) I didn't become effective.

In the same vein, I upgraded to Win11, but downgraded after a month because of the new useless task bar. It couldn't "ungroup" stuff. Had to wait for over a year before that came and I upgraded again. Not being able to see all my open windows on the task bar felt exactly as using MacOS again, just stupidly unproductive, why change a winning formula, Microsoft? (My guess is their designers use Mac and don't "get" Windows..)


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